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Hey Ho - By Sons Of Silence Dago from “I Told You So” CD…
Verse 1: Well, the Government Man - he’s gettin’ tired of me
He don’t like how I live - he don’t want me to speak
So he puts me away - for as long as he can
But I keep gettin’ up - now I’m making a stand.
Better open my eyes, better choose my ground
And I better beware - or I won’t be around.
Chorus: Hey Ho - We say, “Hell, no
We’ve had it up here and now you got to go -
1st Time: Your F.B.I. is a bad disease -
2nd Time: Your informant class is a bad disease -
3rd Time: Your A.T.F. is a bad disease -
Rather die on our feet than live on our knees.
Hey Ho -- lock and load -- you genocidal motherfuckers got to go.
You call it a crime to be an everyday man
Let’s see who’s left standing when the shit hits the fan.”
Verse 2: Well, the Government Man - he’s got his eyes on you
Better watch what you say - better watch what you do -
Don’t be laughing too loud; don’t be living too free
If you’re white and you’re proud - it’s a conspiracy.
Better open your eyes, better choose your ground,
Better watch your back - or you won’t be around.
Chorus 2:
Verse 3: Well this government, man, they’re afraid of us
And there ain’t nothing worse than these cowards with guns:
Ask Vicki and Sammy - Ask Gordon Kahl
Or Vernon Howell and family - how they murdered them all.
But it’s opened our eyes - now we’ve chosen our ground
And we’re watching all sides. We’ll be coming around.
Chorus 3:
Verse 4: So, “Hey Government Man, we’re really tired of you
Better take your best shot - ‘cause you’re just about through
‘Cause I’m everywhere now - doing all that I can
To turn it around - and help take back the land.
Gonna put out your eyes and put you in the ground.
And it’s too big to stop - Yeah, we’re taking you down.”
Final Chorus: Hey Ho - We won’t take no more.
We’re finished with your lies - and you got to go
‘Cause your police state is a bad disease.
We’d rather die on our feet than live on our knees.
Hey Ho - lock and load -
You n____-huggin’ motherfuckers got to go
‘Cause you call it a crime to be a regular man
Let’s see who’s left standing when the shit hits the fan.
(Hey Government Man) When the shit hits the fan
(Hey Government Man) When the shit hits the fan
(Hey Ho -- Government Man) When the shit hits the fan
(Hey Ho -- Government Man) When the shit hits the fan!
(M 60 gunfire) “Bye-Bye”
Justice Dept. wants phone locales without warrant – Feb 12,
2010 – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - By Mary Claire Dale -
Should the Gov’t be allowed to track a person’s movements based
on cell phone records, without evidence of criminal wrongdoing?
A showdown on the issue unfolded Friday in a Fed appeals court
in Philadelphia, as the Justice Department battled electronicprivacy
groups. The privacy groups say the information could
reveal when someone goes to a religious service, medical clinic or
political rally, or is having an extramarital affair. Third U.S.
Circuit Judge Dolores Sloviter seemed to share that concern.
“You know there are Gov’ts in the world that would like to know
where some of their people are or have been,” Sloviter challenged
Justice Department lawyer Mark Eckenwiler, an associate director
of criminal enforcement operations. “Can the government assure
us that it will never try to find out these things?” she asked.
“Don’t we have to be concerned about this? Not this government
right now, but a Govt?” Law enforcement agencies hope to
obtain cell phone location data from cellular providers without
first showing probable cause of a crime — & without the
customer’s knowledge. The data comes from cell phone towers,
& in densely populated cities can pinpoint a person’s location to
within a few hundred yards. The issue is not whether the Gov’t
can obtain the information, but whether a probable-cause warrant
should be required first. “An individual has no Fourth
Amendment-protected privacy interest in business records, such
as cell-site usage information, that are kept, maintained & used by
a cell phone company,” Eckenwiler wrote in his brief. Sloviter
countered by asking Eckenwiler why there was a need to skip a
probable-cause showing, saying that she knew no magistrates
reluctant to grant search warrant applications. He replied that the
relevant law does not require them. Eckenwiler said probablecause
warrants are only needed to obtain the contents of electronic
communications, such as a text or e-mail, or to wiretap a phone.
He believes the 1986 Electronics Communications Privacy Act
allows police to obtain “non-content” data without a warrant.
After Friday’s hearing, Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy,
D-Vt., chief author of the 1986 law, said his committee would
revisit the legislation this year. “The question of how best to
protect these digital communications, while providing law
enforcement with the tools that it needs to keep us safe, has no
simple answer. But, what is clear is that our Fed electronic
privacy laws are woefully outdated,” Leahy said in a statement.
The appeal heard Friday stems from a Pittsburgh drug-trafficking
case, in which the ATF sought the data as an investigative tool
because the suspects frequently changed vehicles & residences.
Magistrate Lisa Pupo Lenihan denied the 2008 request, calling the
information “extraordinarily personal & potentially sensitive.”
The Electronic Frontier Foundation & the American Civil
Liberties Union asked that Lenihan’s ruling stand. Eckenwiler
challenged the notion that Govt access to location data would turn
a person’s phone into a “tracking device.” He said the ATF was
only seeking past cell phone use in the drug case. However, a
professor of cyberspace law called the distinction negligible.
Police could ask a cell phone provider for historical data & then
ask again a month later — thereby achieving the same end, argued
Susan Freiwald, a University of San Francisco law professor.
“Most cell phone users would be unpleasantly surprised, if not
outraged, to learn that a law enforcement agent could gain access
to their location information without first obtaining a warrant
based on a showing of probable cause,” she wrote in a “friend of
the court” brief. Sloviter is joined on the three-judge panel by
Judge R. Jane Roth, who was absent from the bench Friday, &
visiting 9th Circuit Judge A. Wallace Tashima. The judges
suspended the usual 30-minute time limit for oral arguments,
extending the session to 80 minutes. Tashima questioned
Freiwald’s contention that the phone-location data lets police
invade the privacy of the home. Freiwald believes the information
can suggest when people are home, when they are awake & who
might be with them. “We should be able to use our cell phones
without them creating a virtual map of our movements &
associations,” Freiwald argued.

Bikies plan to ride on polling booths – Feb 16, 2010 – Australia
– By Bryan Littlely & Lauren Novak - Bikies will target polling
booths at the state election with a Poker Run aimed at pressuring
Premier Mike Rann & his Gov’t. The “Run Rann Out” Gypsy
Jokers event will leave the main street of Gawler at noon on
March 20 & will stop at key polling booths. The run is intended
as a protest, similar to last year’s Gypsy Jokers annual Poker Run
in March - dubbed the Freedom of Association Protest Poker Run
- which drew more than 300 bikers riding through the Barossa
Valley. All clubs are being invited to take part this year & at least
300 bikers are expected. The bikies do not plan to stop to vote
en-masse but they will rumble past key polling booths in the
northern areas in a show of force as people cast their vote. The
Gypsy Jokers MC’s website features Mike Rann in Adolf Hitler
guise & Atty-General Michael Atkinson sporting a swastika. The
event is another major distraction for the Premier, whose election
campaign is already being hounded by former Parliament House
waitress Michelle Chantelois & her allegations of an affair with
Rann, which he denies. A spokeswoman for Rann said the
planned biker run showed the Govt’s anti-bikie stance was
“having an impact”. Atty-General Michael Atkinson said the
public supported the Govt’s moves to tackle serious & organized
crime. “Yes they are tough but that’s what is required to disrupt
this sort of criminal behavior,” he said. “The Gypsy Jokers are
organizing a run for election day because they are worried -
further evidence that these laws are working.” Atkinson’s
spokesman brushed off concerns about the Atty-General
appearing on the Gypsy Jokers website in a swastika, pointing out
Atkinson had encouraged Croydon constituents to remove a Nazi
flag after a party. The Advertiser last night spoke to Gypsy Jokers
club Pres Diesel, who said the Run Rann Out name was chosen
because the Premier “can’t be trusted”. He warned more protests
were likely. “We’re not laying down, we’re going to protest until
the High Court challenge (by the Gov’t over anti-association
laws) is done with & we’ll protest some more if we have to,” he
said. “It makes a point & that’s what it’s all about. We’re not
going away.” An insider told The Advertiser the event served as
the club’s annual Poker Run. “The run route will be kept
confidential until close to the day, but it will almost certainly take
in some polling booths . . . so members can vote, of course.”
Inspector Steve Taylor from the Crime Gangs Taskforce said SA
Police were aware of the event & would “respond accordingly”.
Gamers more scary than bikers – Feb 16, 2010 – Australia - An
Australian politician who opposes the lifting of a censorship ban
on adults-only computer games has said he feels more threatened
by gamers than outlawed motorcycle gangs. South Australia’s
Atty-General Michael Atkinson, who has the right to veto the
lifting of a national ban on computer games rated too violent &
extreme for consumption, said he had received a threatening note
from a gamer. “I feel that my family & I are more at risk from
gamers than we are from the outlaw motorcycle gangs who also
hate me,” he told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation late
Monday. “The outlaw motorcycle gangs haven’t been hanging
around my doorstep at 2:00 am, a gamer has.” Australia
currently has a ban on adults-only, or R18+, computer games
although films with the same rating in terms of violence, strong
language, nudity, drug use & adult themes are allowed.
Motorcyclists to continue crusade to repeal Nebraska’s
mandatory helmet law – Feb 16, 2010 – Nebraska - Even
though the repeal of the helmet law failed once again in the
Legislature, some Lincoln motorcyclists say they will continue to
fight for what they see is their personal choice.
No biker tattoos for prison guards – Feb 16, 2010 – Denmark -
Confusion reigns after guidelines are issued suggesting the
inappropriate nature of ‘biker gang type’ tattoos… Prison guards
are up in arms after being advised by the Danish Prison &
Probation Service that ‘biker gang type’ tattoos are not
appropriate when uniform. The new uniform regulations issued
by the DPPS state that ‘the existence of visible tattoos could be
found to damage the reputation that prison guards should have
both outwardly & inwardly’. The guidelines continue by stating
that the ‘existence of large, visible “biker gang type” tattoos on
the hands, arms, neck & head are in this way not desirable’. Kim
Østerbye, chairman of the prison workers’ union, told Berlingske
Tidende newspaper that the publication of the rules had crossed a
line & the wording would only lead to confusion amongst union
members. ‘What is a biker gang tattoo? What is an immigrant
gang tattoo?’ he said. ‘Tattoos in Denmark are completely normal.
Police begin crackdown on motorcycle gangs – Feb 16, 2010 –
India - Personnel from the Ahmedabad City Police & the Traffic
Dept have undertaken a combing operation to control the spiraling
motor vehicle theft in the city. The police have already collected
Rs 6,27,185 in the last 4 days by way of penalties. The combing
started on Feb 5 after the Ahmedabad Police Commissioner issued
a circular to organize a drive & catch offenders in connection with
loots, motor vehicle thefts & road thefts in the city. Besides, the
Traffic Police have also detained offenders for violating traffic
rules. During a round the clock duty, the police seized 473 &
495 vehicles respectively in the first 2 days. On Monday, 72
vehicles were seized. Senior officers in the Traffic Dept said that
of late, biker gangs had become a menace for the people.
Incidents of motor vehicle thefts as also loots, chain & bag
snatchings by motorcycle-borne gangs had increased. During the
combing operation, stolen bikes used by the gangs were
confiscated, the police said. The officers further said there is one
suspected biker gang that has given a tough time to the police.
Combing operation has been arranged to trace the gang & some
others that have come up in the city lately, said an officer. The
police have also checked more than 30,000 motorcycles in the city
in the last 4 days. The combing would go on for a couple of weeks
in the city, the officer added.
The Good Wife: One winter morning, a husband & wife in
Jeffersonville were listening to the radio during breakfast. They
heard the announcer say, “We are going to have 8 to 10 inches of
snow today. You must park your car on the even-numbered side
of the street, so the snowplows can get through.” So the good
wife went out & moved her car. A week later while they are
eating breakfast again, the radio announcer said, “We are
expecting 10 to 12 inches of snow today. You must park your car
on the odd-numbered side of the street so the snowplows can get
through.” The good wife went out & moved her car again. The
next week they are again having breakfast, when the radio
announcer says, “We are expecting 12 to 14 inches of snow today.
You must park...” Then the electric power went out. The good
wife was very upset, & with a worried look on her face she said,
“Honey, I don’t know what to do. Which side of the street do I
need to park on so the snowplows can get through?” With the
love & understanding in his voice that all men who are married to
blondes exhibit, the husband replied, “Why don’t you just leave it
in the garage this time.”
The worst enemy of any free man is Gov’t, & the worst enemy of
any Gov’t is a free man...

The Bull Sh-T Artist: By Bingo (DC Eagle/COC of Wisconsin) -
Names, dates & places have been changed to protect the Guilty.
Big Gus was a ‘hang-around’ & always seemed to want to
brag about all the things he had done in his life. But there was
never any proof - of any of it. For one thing - he said that he Used
to be able to lift weights & he had bench pressed 400 pounds. But
his back was broken in an accident & he can’t lift weights
anymore. Yeah! Sure!
Well, it was ‘Sturgis Time’ & he stopped by this biker bar
where we all hung out & he told us that him & his cousin Al were
riding out to Sturgis the next day. He told us about his going
there last year & that they rode all the way there & all the way
back. That they were going to do it again. He bragged about the
2 of them passing all the other bikes on the way there - & on the
way back too. He said they put on 3500 miles!
While he was busy telling about their last trip out there -
Maverick slipped out the side door & without Big Gus knowing -
he wrote down the mileage on his odometer - then came back in
that side door again. He had the bartender put the piece of paper
behind the cash register.
Sure enough - when Big Gus pulled up a week later & walked
in - he ordered a beer & started telling us all about his ride out to
Sturgis & back. How they met up with - & rode a little way with
some women’s club - but they weren’t going fast enough for
them! He told about going through small towns & scaring the
people - about stopping off at bars & having a few drinks - about
a fight they had with some cowboys in some little burg in
Nebraska - & about a gal that he picked up on the way there that
the 2 of them ‘shared’.
Maverick had walked out after Big Gus walked in - & now -
he came back into the bar holding a small piece of paper. He told
the bartender to give him that other piece that was behind the cash
register. He did some fast figuring with his pen, then turning
around he yelled out: “Hey all you guys! Big Gus is back from
his round trip ride out to Sturgis! He has rode his bike a total of
107 miles since he left here last week!” Everybody laughed!
Then Maverick told Big Gus: “Get your lying ass out of this
bar & don’t come back!” Saying that, he kicked Gus in the ass!
Gus left. He don’t come around us anymore! The moral of this
story is - Don’t let your mouth overload your ass.
D C Eagles MC History: The late “DC Danny” LeDesma
founded the DC Eagles motorcycle club in 1963 in Chicago, IL.
which is our parent chapter. While the first years were very
turbulent to say the least, the larger clubs of the time figured out
we were not going to fold up & quit. Much of our early survival
was due to DC Danny’s street smarts & his undying belief in the
reasons he started the club. They were & still are the corner stone
of our existence. Love, Honor, Respect And Complete Trust in
your brother. Most of the clubs of Chicago formed a federation,
which is still in effect today. One of the concessions Danny gave
up was the wearing of the 1%er patch. Hence the evolvement of
the Diamond (with the letters & numbers 99% NFG), all DC
Eagles wear above their heart. This patch is as or even more
important to a DC Eagle than his back patch. The DC Eagles is a
club consisting of Brothers from many other clubs. We say that
all of these brothers got their training in previous clubs now they
are getting their PHD in Brotherhood. Like all good clubs a
person just can’t walk up & become a DC Eagle. We have 4
active chapters, Chicago, Northern Wisconsin, Southern
Wisconsin & Central Illinois based in Decatur, Ill. with many
retired brothers around the world. If you think you have what it
takes to be a DC Eagle, find one of our chapters & see if you
make the grade. While we are not as large as some clubs we are
no less serious about the things that bind us & set us apart as DC
Eagles. While we do belong to several federations of clubs & also
have several brother clubs we still maintain our independence &
loyalty to the beliefs that DC Danny founded the club on. As with
any club we are always looking for new members, but be well
advised we ain’t no girl scout outfit just looking to put up
numbers. We want brothers for life. Many of our members &
retired members have two, 3 even 4 decades of brotherhood in
this club. I love my brothers is not just a slogan for us it’s a creed
that we carry with us twenty-four hours a day.
Oregon Motorcycle Riders Converge on Capitol – Feb 17,
2010 – Oregon – By Bonnie King - Motorcycle club members,
independent riders & even non-riders alike came together in
solidarity Monday to protect rights specific to bikers. The first
“call to action” by the US Defenders motorcycle group brought
out over 70 bikes to the Oregon State Capitol on Monday making
a positive statement of unity between clubs & independent riders.
Quiet Mike, the Information Officer for US Defenders said he was
pleased with the show of bikes, “It was an excellent turnout, the
most motorcyclists we’ve had here for a long time.” US
Defenders is a movement formed from within motorcycle clubs
from every state to implement & support motorcycle rights. The
grass roots organization is made up of a nationwide Confederation
of Clubs, composed of state “citizen biker manpower” from
Motorcycle Clubs & Coalition of Independent Riders (C.O.I.R)
representatives. Quiet Mike, who also serves as Vice-Chairman
for Confederation of Clubs said this was a well-planned event.
“We set up in room 150 in the capitol so people could come &
meet with their state representative or state senator. Several
people set up appointments in advance, & they were able to
express their concerns about how bikers’ rights are being
affected.” Some of the issues important to Oregon bikers include
Senate bill 603 which affected firearms allowed on ATVs &
motorcycles. That bill went back to committee. “It was a poorly
written piece of legislation,” Quiet Mike said, “but it’s important
that our reps know we’re paying attention.” Many people were
there to discuss helmet laws, others for civil rights where profiling
motorcycle club members is concerned, and, some brought up that
deaths by vehicles should be regarded as crimes across the board,
& the responsible party should receive more than just a traffic
fine. “It needs to be vehicular manslaughter,” Mike said. “When
someone gets killed whether they’re walking, driving a truck, or
riding a bike, the traffic infraction is inequitable for everybody.
Motorcycles are not the only issue. If your mother, your sister, or
your brother gets killed at a red light, it’s not a crime, it’s just a
traffic fine.” The motorcycle riders showed up in unison, to
make their voices heard by their elected officials. They were
organized, polite, & made a not-so-subtle statement that they are a
large contingency – over 17,000 strong - within the state that
stands together on policies that affect motorcycle enthusiasts of all
types, ranges & ages. Citizens in Oregon showed how a wellintentioned
group can make a positive difference for their
community, even if that community doesn’t fall within the
stereotypical mainstream.
Thomas Jefferson said in 1802: ‘I believe that banking
institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing
armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to
control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by
deflation, the banks & corporations that will grow up around the
banks will deprive the people of all property - until their children
wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.’

Pagan’s informant used drugs on his own, U.S. – Feb 17, 2010
– Charleston, West Virginia – By Andrew Clevenger - A key
undercover witness in the racketeering case against members &
associates of the Pagan’s MC repeatedly bought & used drugs on
his own, Fed prosecutors said Tue. The witness, identified only
as a confidential informant for the ATF, revealed his drug-related
activities when authorities interviewed him on Thu & Fri, said
Assistant U.S. Atty Steven Loew. The revelations included
multiple occasions when the confidential informant bought
cocaine for several Pagan’s who were named in Oct 2009 as
defendants in a 44-count indictment, Loew said. The informant
also reported sharing his own prescription drugs, including
Adderall & Lortab, with members of the Pagan’s, & he admitted
using various illegal & prescription drugs, including cocaine,
crack, Xanax, hydrocodone & methamphetamine, Loew said.
The informant also sold 2 guns to defendants in the racketeering
case, Loew said. Also, the informant stopped taking medicine for
his bipolar condition for a period, Loew said. “Obviously, the
criminal activity the [informant] engaged in while he was a
confidential informant is appalling, & if the United States’ case
rested entirely on him, we’d be in a different boat,” Loew said.
But the man’s information has been corroborated by other
evidence & by at least one defendant who has already pleaded
guilty, he said. Loew’s disclosure came during a detention
hearing for Dante T. “Victor” Demarco, a union bricklayer from
New Jersey accused of helping to beat the informant in a hotel
room in New Jersey in Jan 2009. Several Pagan’s from West
Virginia & New Jersey allegedly performed the “bang check,”
which included searching the confidential informant for a wire,
according the indictment & testimony at detention hearings.
Earlier this month, a grand jury handed up a new indictment in the
Pagan’s case, which removed the 17 defendants who have already
cut deals with prosecutors & added Demarco. Although the
Gov’t, wary of the possibility of violence & retaliation against
potential witnesses, asked for Demarco to be detained pending
trial, U.S. Magistrate Judge Mary E. Stanley released him
Tuesday on a $10,000 unsecured bond. She placed Demarco on
home confinement, allowing him to continue working & taking
care of his elderly, infirm parents. The Govt’s use of confidential
informants to help compile its case against the Pagan’s & smaller
affiliated clubs looms as a major issue as the racketeering case
goes forward. “I don’t know if [the informant] will be a
competent witness,” Charleston lawyer Claude Smith, who
represents Demarco, said during Tuesday’s hearing. In Nov,
Loew disclosed the existence of 4 confidential informants who
had been paid by the Gov’t in a letter to defense attys. In that
letter, Loew indicated that the ATF’s confidential informant was
authorized to engage in criminal activity “at the request of & at
the direction of his handling agents.” Since he signed on in May
2007, the ATF’s confidential informant had been reimbursed
more than $16,000 for travel & expenses, including about $3,000
in medical bills after he was injured in a motorcycle accident
while riding with the Pagan’s. The ATF also loaned him a H-D
motorcycle to use so he could join the Pagan’s & paid for its
repairs, according to the letter. Loew also disclosed Tuesday that
the informant had been a member of the Ku Klux Klan. The FBI
had a different confidential informant on the payroll since April
2004. To date, that person, who is referred to in court documents
as a convicted murderer, has been paid almost $200,000. Other
filings describe him as the personal sergeant-at-arms for Pagan’s
Nat’l VP Floyd B. “Jesse” Moore. The FBI’s confidential
informant was also authorized to break the law with prior
knowledge of his handling agent, Loew’s letter stated. Moore,
64, of St. Albans, pleaded guilty to racketeering charges in Dec,
admitting in part that the Pagan’s were a criminal enterprise with
a hierarchical organization. The ATF confidential informant
acted as a go-between for members of the Pagan’s & their cocaine
dealer of choice, Ed “Fat Ed” Parsons, who pleaded guilty to
distributing cocaine in Oct. On one day, the confidential
informant went to buy cocaine from Parsons on behalf of Stephen
Jeffrey “Oscar” Bailey 8 times, because Bailey was unhappy with
the quality of the cocaine, Loew said Tue. After Bailey had
bought roughly $1,000 worth of the drug, he sent the confidential
informant to get his money back. After the informant recovered
less than $250, Bailey sent word back to Parsons that if he didn’t
get the rest of his money back, Parsons’ house might get
firebombed, he said. To date, 17 of the original 55 defendants,
including Bailey, have pleaded guilty to various charges,
including funneling the proceeds of illegal motorcycle raffles,
helping to stockpile explosives as part of an ongoing feud with the
Hells Angels MC, intimidating other motorcycle clubs, extortion.
U.S. District Judge Thomas E. Johnston is scheduled to preside
over the trial of the remaining 38 defendants in May.
Burial Saturday For Shooting Victim; Was A Vietnam
Veteran – Feb 17, 2010 – Connecticut – By Jesse Leavenworth -
A Vietnam veteran & member of the Outlaws MC who was shot
to death last week is to be buried Saturday. Joseph “HoJo”
Ferraiolo, 64, was killed outside the Hamden tattoo parlor he
owned on Feb. 9. Hamden police are investigating whether the
killing was related to a biker club rivalry, according to the New
Haven Register. The funeral is scheduled for 10 a.m. at St.
Therese Church, 555 Middletown Ave., North Haven, with burial
to follow in East Lawn Cemetery, East Haven. Visiting hours are
set for Friday from 4 to 8 p.m. at the North Haven Funeral Home,
36 Washington Ave., North Haven. Ferraiolo was a U.S. Marine
Corps veteran & father of 4 children.
A man walks out to the street & catches a taxi just going by. He
gets into the taxi, & the cabbie says, ‘Perfect timing. You’re just
like Frank. Passenger: ‘Who?’ Cabbie: ‘Frank Feldman.. He’s
a guy who did everything right all the time. Like my coming
along when you needed a cab, things happened like that to Frank
Feldman every single time.’ Passenger: ‘There are always a few
clouds over everybody.’ Cabbie: ‘Not Frank Feldman. He was a
terrific athlete. He could have won the Grand-Slam at tennis. He
could golf with the pros. He sang like an opera baritone & danced
like a Broadway star & you should have heard him play the piano.
He was an amazing guy.’ Passenger: Sounds like he was
something really special. Cabbie: ‘There’s more. He had a
memory like a computer. He remembered everybody’s birthday.
He knew all about wine, which foods to order & which fork to eat
them with. He could fix anything. Not like me. I change a fuse,
& the whole street blacks out. But Frank Feldman, could do
everything right. Passenger: ‘Wow, some guy then.’ Cabbie:
‘He always knew the quickest way to go in traffic & avoid traffic
jams. Not like me, I always seem to get stuck in them. But Frank,
he never made a mistake, & he really knew how to treat a woman
& make her feel good. He would never answer her back even if
she was in the wrong; & his clothing was always immaculate,
shoes highly polished too - He was the perfect man! He never
made a mistake. No one could ever measure up to
Frank Feldman.’ Passenger: ‘An amazing fellow. How did you
meet him?’ Cabbie: ‘Well, I never actually met Frank, he died &
I married his f***ing wife.
There is not a man of us who does not at times need a helping
hand to be stretched out to him, & then shame upon him who will
not stretch out the helping hand to his brother.
-Theodore Roosevelt

Joe Gustafson lives above the law in north Minneapolis – Feb
17, 2010 – Minnesota - By Erin Carlyle - Former Hells Angel is
about to get taken down… Joe Gustafson sat there, handcuffed,
in a recliner in his living room, as Fed agents rifled through his
personal things. They were tearing through the house, taking his
guns. He showed them the serial numbers carved onto the sides,
but it didn’t matter. He was a prisoner in his home & he couldn’t
stop them. They’d come in the morning, before sunrise, stealing
into the sleepy Victory neighborhood in north Minneapolis where
Gustafson ran his bail bonds business & raised his sons. They
stormed past the house’s steel-plated facade in riot gear, as if they
expected a shoot-out, as if he were some big-time gangster
waiting with pistol cocked. They tinkered with the security
camera, the one he’d installed to watch the front door. They
crawled all over his lawn in blue jackets, their backs blazed proud
yellow: FBI & IRS. Gustafson-a 54-year-old former Hells Angel
with a gray ponytail, an Angels tattoo on his chest, & motorcycle
boots-was furious. The Fed agents descended upon his house, the
house of his daughter-in-law, & a third house where a friend of
theirs lived, all for no good reason, he says. “To be honest with
you, I’m kind of in the dark about it, you know? I believe it’s
unjust & uncalled for, you know what I mean?” Gustafson says
it’s just like the raid several years ago, when the cops came to his
house accusing his son of title fraud & tax evasion, or when they
investigated him for dealing in stolen Harleys as part of a Hells
Angels chop shop. They couldn’t pin him with anything then, he
says, & they won’t this time, either. “I’m licensed as a bail bonds
business, I do bounty-hunting work, all my guns are legal, I have
a license to carry,” he says. “Totally, this is some bullshit, you
know what I mean?” A Fed grand jury is expected to hand down
indictments of Gustafson, his son, & their underlings soonpossibly
within weeks. Fed prosecutors are arguing that
Gustafson & son are the masterminds of an organized crime ring
specializing in arson, fraud, extortion, drugs, & kidnapping.
Subpoenas are circulating, even if few people involved in the case
are willing to talk publicly. “I can confirm that we executed a
search warrant at that location in support of an ongoing
investigation,” is all that E.K. Wilson, an FBI spokesman, would
offer. “We aren’t really able to comment about an ongoing
situation,” says Janet Oakes, special agent & spokeswoman for
the IRS. But several Minneapolis police officers confirm that the
case is now with Fed prosecutors. “He’s been a figure on the
North Side for probably 30 years, if not more,” says Minneapolis
Police Inspector Mike Martin, commander of the Fourth Precinct.
“He’s one of these guys that wasn’t accepted within the biker
culture & was therefore excommunicated from the Hells Angels,
& yet wants to still portray this image that he’s affiliated with
them, & use that to intimidate people.”
Joseph Robert Gustafson got his first serious criminal conviction,
for felony aggravated assault, in 1979, when he was 23. A man
named Donald Peterson was moving furniture for his ex-wife
outside a home in north Minneapolis when Gustafson,
accompanied by his older brother James, showed up carrying a
heavy pipe. The beating was so vicious that Peterson was left
with a fractured skull & jaw & lost 14 teeth. When police asked
Gustafson about it, he told them he was under the influence of
medication & didn’t remember anything. Big brother James
dummied up as well. All the Gustafson boys got in trouble, but
none more than Joe’s younger brother Harold. Like Joe’s,
Harold’s fists could deliver devastating blows. After one night of
drinking in 1976, Harold beat a man so badly that he was left
mentally incapacitated, unable to speak or feed himself. At 19,
Harold was headed to prison for 5 years. He’d been out of St.
Cloud penitentiary for just over a year when, in Oct 1982, he put
on a mask & stormed the basement pharmacy of a hospital in St.
Paul. Harold & 2 other men tried to rob the cashier. When the
security guard, an off-duty Oakdale cop, tried to intervene,
someone shot him dead. The family jumped to Harold’s
defense. They said that on the evening of the murder, Harold was
at his parents’ house, eating chili & giving the family tattoos.
The jury didn’t buy it. In 1984, Harold got life in prison.
Around the same time, Joe got arrested on felony drug charges.
He was sitting on his motorcycle, blocking traffic, jawing away at
someone in a parked car near the intersection of 26 th St &
Sheridan Ave N, according to court records. When a Minneapolis
cop told him to move along, Gustafson refused. The officer
asked for his name-Joe gave a fake one-and patted him down.
Gustafson had 6 ¼ grams of cocaine attached to a beeper in the
inner pocket of his black leather jacket. But Joe had a plan. On
March 1, 1985, he took a man named Andrew Carey Beggs for a
drive in his pickup truck, according to court records. Gustafson
steered past a 1972 Pontiac Ventura parked in a north
Minneapolis alleyway, & dangled some keys. If Beggs claimed
the blow, the car would be his, Gustafson promised. Beggs &
Joe met to go over the story, along with Gustafson’s girlfriend,
Colleen Livingston, & his mother, Patricia. One of the women
took notes to help Beggs remember the story. A few days later,
Beggs & Joe met with Gustafson’s attorney so that Beggs could
practice some more. The day before Gustafson’s trial was to
begin, Beggs told his story to the Minneapolis police in the
lawyer’s office. Beggs said he’d been drinking that night with
Gustafson & had won the cocaine in a pool game. He’d slipped it
into his jacket pocket, then loaned the jacket to Gustafson to wear.
The next day, however, Beggs had a change of heart: He
confessed that Gustafson had bribed him. Beggs gave the police
the title & keys to the Ventura as proof. He also recorded a
damning conversation on tape. “You’re supposed to just say ya
just won the shit, ya know what I mean?” Gustafson asks Beggs,
according to the criminal complaint. A jury convicted Joe of
bribery & of conspiracy to commit perjury, both felonies, but not
of the drug charges. Twenty-five years later, Gustafson cites the
case as an example of how the law has continually screwed him
over. “It wasn’t my coat,” he says. “When I went to prison, it
was for conspiracy to commit perjury & bribery-pertaining to a
case I beat in a jury trial! Does that make any sense to you?”
Joe Gustafson Became a father young, eight days before his 19th
birthday, when his 18-year-old girlfriend, Colleen Livingston, had
a son, Joseph Duane. Six & a half years later, Colleen gave birth
to a second boy, John Albert. When his kids were small, Joe was
riding with the Hells Angels. Before he killed the cop, Harold
had introduced Joe to Paul “Rooster” Seydel, the VP of the
Minnesota chapter of the Hells Angels. Joe got his patch faster
than any Angel in Minnesota club history-some claim he paved
the way by donating about $40,000 to the club, which Joe
vehemently denies. Either way, Hells Angels membership was a
point of pride for the family. Like their daddy, the young
Gustafson boys wore their hair biker-style, flowing down their
backs. “John-o, when he was eight or nine, had hair past his
butt,” says Chris Caine, who grew up around the block from
Gustafson’s parents’ house. “When they were kids, John-o was
like, ‘Oh, my dad’s a Hells Angel.’” At some point, Gustafson
got kicked out of the club. There are many stories circulating
about what happened, but Gustafson won’t discuss it. “Anyhow,
it just wasn’t the way it was supposed to be,” he says. “I should
have transferred to another state is what I should have did.
Because-you know what I mean-I’d probably still be in it then,
you know?” In 1988, when his boys were 13 & 6, Gustafson was
convicted of domestic assault. He beat Colleen, & on at least one

occasion broke her fingers. Eventually, Colleen left him. So he
raised his boys alone, & they followed in his steel-toed bootsteps.
John-o’s criminal history is short. He was cited at 19 for having
pot in his car, & at 20 for slashing tires & knifing an enemy’s
shoulder at a party. His only criminal conviction was a
misdemeanor, driving with a suspended license. The older son,
Joe Jr., racked up the more serious record, collecting felonies for
car theft, assault, & property damage. In 1993, Gustafson & Joe
Jr. paid a visit to a house on Aldrich Ave N, according to court
records: They were looking for vengeance for a murdered friend.
“You guys got guns, we’ll come back with guns,” said Little Joe,
inviting a shoot-out. As father & son turned to leave, one of their
enemies reached out & grabbed Big Joe. Quickly, Little Joe
pulled out a knife & stabbed the assailant in the neck. Big Joe
says that court records don’t tell the whole story-specifically that
the men had stumbled into an ambush with a bunch of Crips
who’d been picking on Little Joe. “They gutted me from my rib
cage to my belly button,” he says. “Lucky we got out alive.”
Little Joe got a plea bargain that lowered a felony assault charge
to a misdemeanor. He was supposed to stay away from weapons
& work or go back to school. But as the years passed, his
violence only escalated. In one episode outside of Gabby’s Bar
in northeast Minneapolis, 22-year-old Little Joe shouted racial
slurs at 2 black men & threatened them with a knife. Then he
jumped into a stolen car & gunned it, hitting 4 people, including
his girlfriend, Mindy Heinkel. She needed surgery-a steel rod in
her right femur & a steel plate in her left. Big Joe says that Little
Joe was acting in self-defense. “There were 4 or 5 black guys
assaulting my kid. He was by himself with his girlfriend,” Big Joe
says. “The shit was on. You know, when you get a bunch of drunk
black guys in there in the first place, that should have been some
kind of self-defense.” Little Joe was convicted of 4 felonies & 2
gross misdemeanors in Hennepin County Court. In meting out the
sentence, Judge Thor Anderson summed up Little Joe’s lifestyle:
“Your underlying problem is that you are a thug, you are full of
anger, you are impulsive, & wherever you are, there’s a fight.”
It was still dark on a frigid April morning in 2003 when the squad
car arrived. Inside John-o’s house, his stunned girlfriend was
trembling. Michelob beer bottles were strewn about the room.
John-o, 21, lay dead. A single bullet was in John-o’s head. His
father was a mile & a half away, & got the call from a friend, not
the police. “I never even get a phone call,” Big Joe says. “You
know, every phone call a parent don’t want to get? I didn’t even
get one of them.” Big Joe remains convinced that John was
murdered. His evidence: John-o was right-handed, but he was
shot on the left side of his head. The gun that killed him was
tucked neatly into a quarter-inch space under the couch, as if it
had been gingerly moved aside. John’s blood was spread
throughout the house: in the sink, in the hallway, in the bedroom
closet, on the bedroom door jamb. And John had been robbed.
“These fucking cops,” Big Joe says. “They don’t even
investigate.” “They’re trying to push it off as a suicide. That’s
bogus,” Big Joe says. “He had it going on for 22-year-old kid.
You know what I mean? He had Cadillacs. He wouldn’t have a
reason to want to kill himself.” Big Joe hired a private
investigator, who agreed that John had been murdered. The
private eye turned his research over to the Minneapolis Police
Department, but nothing came of it. Stories still circulate about
what really happened that night, & who killed John Gustafson, but
one fact remains the same: When John died, his head was shorn
clean-no ponytail.
After his Son’s death, Joe Gustafson’s hair turned white virtually
overnight. He stayed inside his steel-plated home, rarely seen.
Little Joe talked about changing his life. He started working
construction-but his business wasn’t exactly on the up & up. The
family invested in property. Little Joe went to the real estate
training academy of Russ Whitney-the late-night infomercial guru
who “turned $1,000 in borrowed money into a personal wealth of
$4.7 million-in only 18 months!” Little Joe, apparently, aimed to
do the same. By the time that John died, the Gustafsons owned
land across the North Side. “My son thought he was going to be
in the business. He was going to be the housing guy, you know?”
Big Joe says. Among the acquisitions was 3302 Washington
Ave. N., a square beige house facing I-94. Big Joe put up a
“Gustafson’s Bail Bonds” sign, lettered in Hells Angels red &
white. Half a block down, the Hells Angels have their clubhouse.
Former associates say Big Joe put the sign up to tweak his old
friends. Big Joe denies it: “It’s nice to see your name in lights, &
that’s why I bought it,” he says. The family seems to have a
knack for buying houses extremely cheap. Big Joe bought 2517
James Ave. N. for $39,396 from the El Forastero MC, a group
friendly with the Hells Angels. Between 1996 & 2001, the
Gustafsons paid $10,000 for 2615 Newton Ave. N., $51,869 for
1418 Newton Ave. N., $55,000 for 3117 Girard Ave. N., $71,000
for 3500 Queen Ave. N., & $72,577 for 3214 Vincent Ave. N.,
according to property records. Sometimes, the Gustafsons even
got properties for free. A woman named Valerie Keesling handed
over 738 31st Ave. N. to Big Joe through a quit claim deed. John
Van Hall also signed his house over to Big Joe through a quit
claim, property records show-no money exchanged. (Big Joe says
they gave Van Hall a little cash.) One day, bullets sailed through
Big Joe’s house at 4131 Thomas Ave. N. & lodged in his fancy
stereo system. Afterward, Gustafson put 4-by-8-foot, 500-pound
sheets of steel on the house’s facade. That annoyed the neighbors,
but Big Joe didn’t seem to care. “What I’m doing here is to
secure myself, you know what I mean?” he said at the time. “I
believe it’s for my protection.” When Little Joe’s housing
empire wasn’t going as well as a Russ Whitney seminar promised,
Gustafson started to sell the properties. Marie Alexander, a
woman who served eviction papers for the Gustafsons, bought
2615 Newton for $169,000. According to property records, Little
Joe had paid $10,000 for the same house a decade earlier. Four
months after Alexander bought it, 2615 Newton caught fire-twice
in 8 hours. The Minneapolis arson unit ruled the first fire arson,
the second a re-kindle. Total damage: $50,000. Other properties
followed the same pattern. The Gustafsons sold 3500 Queen
Ave. N. to Joshua Ramos for $197,000. (They’d bought it for
$71,000 four years earlier.) 4 ½ months later, the house went up
in flames. Minneapolis investigators ruled it arson, likely aided by
an accelerant. Total damage: $150,000. Around this time,
Michael Densinger bought 3117 Girard Ave N. from Little Joe for
$160,574. (Little Joe had gotten the house for a third of the
price-$55,000-four years before.) Densinger’s new property also
went up in flames. It, too, was ruled arson, aided by an
accelerant. Total damage: $100,000. Several more of the
Gustafsons’ properties burned, including 2527 James Ave. N.,
1418 Newton Ave. N., & 738 31st Ave. N. Total damage for six
arsons: $745,000. Gustafson says his renters are to blame for the
blaze at 2517 James, & for another at a house on Aldrich. “They
were tenants from hell & they were renting the places & what
they actually were was crackheads,” he says. “Some of the
crackhead people that they ripped off went back & started both of
my houses on fire, on Aldrich & on James down there. You know
what I mean?”
Meanwhile, Little Joe ran around town intimidating people. In
March 2005, 30-year-old Little Joe went on a drunken rampage
with a claw hammer. He pulled into the back parking lot of

Standup Franks in north Minneapolis, according to police records,
wearing his red “Gustafson’s Bail Bonds” jacket, gold rings
gleaming from seven of his fingers. He jumped from the car,
screaming at a man named Ravindra Persaud. Little Joe pulled
out a hammer & smashed in the windows of Persaud’s van.
Persaud threatened to call the police. “I’m going to kill you,”
Little Joe said, swinging his hammer at Persaud. Persaud jumped
back. Little Joe swung again. “You motherfuckers don’t know
who you’re messing with,” Little Joe raged. “I’m Joey
Gustafson!” Then he drove off, gunning for Persaud, who had to
leap aside to avoid being hit. Little Joe continued his rampage at
the Star Bar in Columbia Heights later that night, where he
smashed in the windows of 5 cars. For this, Little Joe was
convicted of felony property damage & sentenced to 17 months in
jail & five years of probation. But charges were never pressed for
the incident at Standup Franks because, according to a police
report, Persaud wouldn’t cooperate. Despite his temper, Little
Joe managed to surround himself with friends-or, more
accurately, people who thought they were his friends. The people
who bought houses from the Gustafsons before they burned
down-Marie Alexander, Joshua Ramos, Michael Densinger-were
more like groupies. They called themselves the BDP: the Beat-
Down Posse. “People go to Joe that can’t go to the cops,” says a
former member of the BDP who requested anonymity for fear of
being attacked by his former cohorts. “They go to Joe for
protection, or to even the score. That’s what the feds can’t
understand-how he stays in business.” About 15 people were
part of the BDP, each with a specialty. Troy Neuberger was Little
Joe’s bodyguard & in charge of all the finances. Neuberger lived
with Michael Densinger, whose criminal records include forgery
& theft, in the bail bond house-Big Joe rented it out rather than
work there. The BDP used the bond house as a shooting gallery.
The BDP stole product & cash from drug dealers. One night, they
were having a party in a house on 32 nd & Grand when a dealer
stopped by. The BDP took his money & drugs. They beat him &
left him in a bathtub, in a pool of his own blood. The kid was
beaten so badly that a few BDP wondered if he’d died.
Afterward, Little Joe started threatening the witnesses, one former
BDP says. Little Joe would show up in the middle of the night &
threaten to kill anyone who talked-and their families. Big Joe
once bailed out a man named Hector Fonseco on a $12,000 bond.
When Fonseco skipped town & went back to Mexico, Big Joe lost
money. That became an excuse to rob Mexican families, & to
bust down the doors of drug dealers, a former BDP member says.
“He used the excuse of looking for that dude, Hector Fonseco-he
used that to the hilt. He used that forever,” says the source. “He
used that as an excuse to kick people’s doors in, to beat people up,
to take people’s money.” Big Joe says it was no excuse-they
were simply looking for Hector. They went to drug houses, he
says, because those were the kind of leads they got. “We can go
legally kick in the door, & look for Hector. And that’s what we
did. We weren’t there to take anything from anybody-all we had
to do is take Hector.”
Little Joe is inside a Hennepin County Jail cell now, on charges of
domestic strangulation-his wife called the cops a few weeks back.
Big Joe says the charge is bogus: “She’s already recanting her
story, you know what I mean?” Meanwhile, a secret grand jury
is hearing witness after witness tell tales of the Gustafsons’ legacy
of brutality. Father & son are likely to face charges that, if
upheld, could lock them both up for the rest of their lives. Big
Joe is unrepentant. He says he has done nothing wrong & has
nothing to fear. “I think they’re kind of prejudiced against me
because I’m an ex-Hells Angel. And my brother was convicted of
a cop killing in St. Paul. I really do believe a lot of this shit’s
personal, or political. You know? “The only goddamn problem
is I’m probably guilty of fucking being too good to my kids,” he
says. “I left home when I was like 13. These kids-I give & give
& give to them. The 35-year-old, I still pay for his cell phone &
goddang car insurance & stuff. That’s about it. I love my kids too
much. That’s the only thing I’ll be goddamn guilty of. “You
know what, I don’t feel ashamed of anything I’ve done in my life.
You know what I mean? If I did it all over again, I’d do it the
same damn way. You know?”
Gold Coast bikie turf war – Feb 18, 2010 – Australia – By Ben
Dillaway - A Bloody turf war could erupt on the Gold Coast with
pseudo-bikie gang Notorious declaring it will muscle its way into
the city. Last night a member of the feared Sydney gang broke
ranks, saying the gang was on a recruiting drive & looking to
expand to the Coast to snare a slice of the city’s lucrative illegal
drug trade. “Notorious is trying to recruit as many people as they
can & at the moment they’re trying to make a chapter inside the
Gold Coast & one in Melbourne,” said member ‘Wahlid’ on
Channel 7’s Gangs of Oz program. The Coast is already home to
eight bikie gangs -- Hells Angels, Rebels, Finks, Bandidos, Lone
Wolf, Odin’s Warriors, Nomads & Black Uhlans motorcycle
clubs -- leaving no room for any new players, according to police
& bikie sources. “Geographically there’s only so much that can
go around for them,” said a senior police source yesterday. “I
couldn’t see it (the expansion) happening -- there’s too many
here.” An underworld source with links to several Coast clubs
said there would be a war if Notorious tried to muscle in. “No
one will let it happen -- no doubt it will be (expletive) hectic &
get pretty heavy,” he said. The Bulletin has heard that Notorious
members recently looked at buying a popular nightclub in Surfers
Paradise, but baulked at the price being asked. There was also a
backlash from the local industry, with workers threatening to walk
away from their jobs if ‘Sydney gangs’ began to take over. Last
year Notorious dominated headlines in Sydney as members were
arrested for fatal shootings & vicious assaults. “They’re crazy
(expletive) & they aren’t scared to do anything,” said the
underworld source. “But they will self-destruct.” Notorious was
formed by Allan Sarkis & David Lima on the back of Sam
Ibrahim’s defection from the Nomads outlaw motorcycle gang.
Notorious members do not ride motorcycles. NSW police have
named nightclub boss John Ibrahim as a member but his solicitor
said the suggestion was ‘absurd’. Last night the Notorious
member, who had his image, voice & name changed to protect his
identity, said they were ‘into everything’ as long as it made them
buckets of cash. “Notorious, they are into drugs, they are into
weapons, they are into everything you can think of,” he said.
“They have got links to every industry, from the post office to the
police force. “The aim of Notorious is to make as much money
as they can by getting as much area in Sydney as they can.” He
said new members were given a handbook with information about
the gang’s wide-reaching operations. “You get a handbook
where you learn how to make drugs, how to make guns, where to
get (them), what areas are controlled by the gang, everything like
that,” he said. “One chapter’s about weapons, one’s about drugs
& the other’s about area -- it’s really detailed man, point form.”
Of all tyrannies a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims
may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber
barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber
baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some
point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will
torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their
own conscience. - C.S. Lewis

Judge sends robbery, kidnapping charges against Outlaws to
grand jury – Feb 18, 2010 – Knoxville, Tennessee - A judge
today sent robbery & kidnapping charges against 2 Outlaws MC
members to a grand jury for review. General Sessions Court
Judge Patricia Long ruled there was probable cause to believe
bouncer- turned-undercover deputy Joseph Linger was robbed of
his Outlaws vest & T-shirt & held against his will at the Outlaws
Clifton Road clubhouse in Dec. Defense attys Mike Whalen &
Phil Lomonaco argued Mark Lester & Kenneth Foster were
merely de-vesting Linger of his Outlaws credentials after Linger’s
wife told club members he was an undercover deputy with the
Knox County Sheriff’s Office. Prosecutor Leslie Nassios
countered that the men threatened Linger & had guns within their
reach. “Just because you call yourself an Outlaw does not mean
you can act outside the law,” she said. Linger conceded he joined
the Outlaws to get a job at KCSO. “You know one of the (club)
rules was that patch & insignia was never going to belong to you,
right?” Whalen asked Linger while he was on the witness stand.
“When they asked you to give the vest back, did you?” “After I
was threatened,” Linger responded. Langer had been a bouncer
at a Sevier County bar when he met Outlaws members & was
offered membership. He, in turn, went to KCSO offering to
snitch on the group & was hired as a deputy. Linger said Lester
threatened to hit him with a gun when he refused to turn over the
vest. “I was scared,” he said. Nassios said Whalen’s defense
theory of a de-vesting was “asinine.” The Sheriff’s Office later
raided the clubhouse but found only a small amount of marijuana.
There were several Outlaws in the courtroom, & Sheriff Jimmy
“J.J.” Jones packed it with extra security.
Arson trial begins – Feb 18, 2010 – Virginia – By Sally Voth -
The man accused of torching Bad Water Bill’s Bar-B-Q Barn in
Strasburg in 2003 was heard on a recording played in U.S. District
Court on Wednesday saying if motorcycle gang members found
out he was talking to investigators, they’d murder him. “I will
help you as much as I can, but I don’t want to stick my head out
on a chopping block,” William Wardell “Cozmo” Welebir says on
the 2003 phone call. Welebir, 56, of Port Richey, Fla., faces a
single count of arson. His trial started Wed morning. Assistant
U.S. Atty Joe Mott called to the stand Domingo Perez, who now
works part time for the Shenandoah County Sheriff’s Office, but
at the time of the Oct. 25, 03, fire was an intelligence analyst with
the Northwest Virginia Regional Drug Task Force. A man who
identified himself as “Mr. Wagner” had called a state police tip
line, & Perez was put in touch with him in Nov 2003. Public
Defender Andrea Harris said Welebir was “Mr. Wagner.” “I’m
kind of concerned there’s going to be a loss of life,” Welebir says
in the recording. A chatty Welebir starts the conversation by
saying he had been in a veterans’ mc called the Free Patriots that
did charity runs, but eventually disbanded. While in that club, he
met a couple of members of the Pagan’s MC, including the
Northern Virginia chapter’s Pres, referred to as “Blacksmith.”
Welebir also met Pagan’s & members of the Warlocks MC --
subject of a regional multi-jurisdictional takedown several months
before -- while working at a Bunker Hill, W.Va., club, he tells
Perez. Bad Water Bill’s was a popular hangout for Warlocks
members & other bikers, its owner, Mary Fisher, testified on
Wed. On the recording, Welebir says he contacted the crime
hotline because the man who’d been president of the Free Patriots
had recently joined the Pagan’s & was exhibiting some disturbing
behavior. That man owned the Redwood Motel in Stephens City,
he says in the recording, & the motel was being used for drug
activity, including making “bathtub crystal meth.” Welebir says
the man was being told what to do by the Pagan’s. Welebir says
it became clear the new Pagan’s assignment was to burn down
Bad Water Bill’s. He said it was because the Titans MC, which
was sponsored by the Warlocks, was going to have a charity bike
show there later on the day of the arson. In the recording,
Welebir also refers to a man known as “Coop” who had started a
motorcycle club in Leesburg called the Red Devils, which he says
was a Hells Angels support club. He says the Pagan’s had been
trying to get ‘Coop’ to join them instead, & “Blacksmith” was
trying to let him know the Pagan’s weren’t going to allow the
Hells Angels to move into Virginia. “At this Halloween party,
there was talk of murdering this guy for no other reason than the
fact he joined another club,” Welebir says. “At this point, I had to
say something.” He says he was also angry because someone had
vandalized his motorcycle. Welebir says the motorcycle gangrelated
crime was escalating. “There’s already been 2 drugoverdose
deaths at the Redwood Motel last year,” he says. “It’s
out of hand. Somebody needs to stop it.” Complicating matters
were connections area motorcycle gang members had with police
officers & emergency dispatchers, Welebir says in the recording.
He says he tipped off law enforcement to a party where large
amounts of drugs would be present. “They had the information
before the party began that the police were investigating their
party,” Welebir says. “I can’t have anything tied with [the
investigation]. These people will kill me. I can’t risk being a
witness. They will stop at nothing. They’re capable of doing
anything on a whim.” In the recording, Welebir says that
bulletproof glass was being installed at “Blacksmith’s” house in
Front Royal because the Pagan’s feared retaliation from the Hells
Angels. “He said because we’re going to get blamed for that fire
over at Bad Water Bill’s,” Welebir says. Some motorcycle gang
members tried to get him to join a club, but he wasn’t interested,
he says. “I don’t need to have a patch on my back to know who I
am,” Welebir says on the recording.
Jurors get lesson in motorcycle gang etiquette at arson trial –
Feb 18, 2010 – Virginia – By Sally Voth - Jurors in the Bad
Water Bill’s Bar-B-Q Barn arson trial were schooled in Pagan’s
MC etiquette by a gang member who spent 2 hours testifying
Thursday morning. Pagan treasurer James Arthur “Art” Calhoun
of White Post was a prosecution witness in the trial of William
Wardell Welebir, 56, Port Richey, Fla., who is accused of
torching the Strasburg restaurant in 2003. Calhoun, 51, who was
identified Wed as the owner of a Stephens City roadside inn that
was a Pagan’s hangout, described Welebir as a club “hangaround.”
“I didn’t think he was Pagan’s material,” Calhoun
testified during the 2 nd day of the trial in U.S. District Court.
U.S. District Judge Samuel G. Wilson, who is presiding over the
trial, asked “what’s Pagan’s material?” Calhoun replied,
“Someone who is a little street savvy.” Welebir had slipped up at
a motorcycle event by publicly identifying Calhoun to someone
who was not a member of the Pagan’s, Calhoun said.
Prospective members are schooled in Pagan ways, he said.
Welebir is accused of setting fire to the Strasburg restaurant early
in the morning of Oct. 25, 2003, because a Titans MC event was
planned there later in the day. Calhoun identified the Titans as a
“duck club,” which he compared to a major league baseball farm
team, of the Hells Angels MC. There has been bad blood
between the Hells Angels & Pagan’s for nearly a decade, Calhoun
said, but “there’s animosity between all 1 percent clubs.” Outlaw
motorcycle clubs often describe themselves as the 1 percent of
motorcyclists who flout the law. The Pagan’s wanted to keep the
Hells Angels out of the area, Calhoun said. Calhoun said he
watched Bad Water Bill’s in the hours before the fire to see if any
Hells Angels were there. “It’s not our type of retaliation. We’re
more one on one, face to face,” Calhoun said.

$130K dope stash found – Feb 18, 2010 - Australia - Some
carried guns, others handled sniffer dogs & several were gloved as
police descended on the western end of Grafton Street yesterday
& Stanthorpe, where up to $130,000 worth of cannabis was
seized. About 8am yesterday 8 police cars – including 4 dog
squad vehicles – swooped on 3 Grafton Street homes, all of which
are believed to be linked to the Bandidos MC. A Warwick Police
Criminal Investigation Branch spokesman confirmed a total of six
Warwick & 2 Stanthorpe residences were raided. “Fifty-one
mature cannabis plants were seized in Stanthorpe – 3 people were
charged with possession of a dangerous drug & producing a
dangerous drug,” the spokesman said. It was estimated the
mature plants – measuring about 244cm (8 ft high) – were worth
between $2000 to $2500 each, with the largest pictured above
estimated at $5000.
Rebels outlaw bikie gang member arrested – Feb 18, 2010 –
Australia – A member of the Rebels outlaw motorcycle gang has
been arrested on drugs charges. The Modbury Heights man, 43,
was arrested with a Cumberland Park woman, 27, by the Crime
Gangs Task Force at Salisbury on Wed. The pair was allegedly
found with a small amount of methamphetamine in their
possession with a larger amount found in the house of the bikie,
police said. A total of 30 grams of the drug was allegedly found.
They were given police bail to appear in court at a later date.
Area cocaine ring suspect pleads guilty – Feb 19, 2010 -
Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania - By Sheena Delazio - A city man
charged for his role in a $3.6 million cocaine distribution ring
pleaded guilty Thursday. Francis Buraczewski, 38, of Mill
Street, pleaded guilty to charges of corrupt organizations &
criminal conspiracy before Luzerne County Judge Joseph
Cosgrove. Buraczewski will be sentenced on the charges on
April 14. Deputy Atty General Tim Doherty said Buraczewski
participated in the drug ring operated by members of the Outlaws
MC, which distributed cocaine throughout the area beginning in
July 2008. According to court papers, Buraczewski on Jan 26,
2009, arranged to buy “a half” of cocaine from John “J Bone”
Ricci. Three days later, Buraczewski again asked Ricci to sell
him 3.5 grams, a “ball,” & “a half,” 1.75 grams of cocaine.
Investigators said Buraczewski obtained more than 5 grams of
cocaine in 2 separate packages, which is “consistent with
redistribution of cocaine.” In Dec, John “G Unit” Gonda, 38, of
Fern Ridge Road, White Haven, pleaded guilty before Luzerne
County Judge Chester Muroski to charges of corrupt
organizations, criminal conspiracy to deliver a controlled
substance & delivery of a controlled substance. Investigators
said Gonda & 22 other members of the Outlaws were charged in
the ongoing investigation, known as Operation Avalanche.
Undercover agents on March 6 simultaneously raided the group’s
clubhouse at 115 N. Main St., Ashley, as well as Gonda’s
residence & 4 other locations. Investigators said they made about
30 controlled cocaine purchases from Kevin Nowakowski &
Outlaw members John “J Bone” Ricci & Ronald Molnar since
July. Thousands of calls were intercepted through courtauthorized
wiretaps that led agents to identify Anthony Manchio,
of Wapwallopen, as the Outlaws’ main cocaine supplier. Ricci,
36, of Hanover Township, was scheduled to enter a guilty plea in
December as well, but his attorney, John Donovan, told Muroski
that he & Doherty needed more time to discuss a possible plea
agreement. Nowakowski & 11 others involved in the drug ring
are awaiting trial on similar charges.
Man who fish in other man’s well often catch crabs.
Socializing with Outlaws cost a Knox County Sheriff’s Office
deputy her job. Joining them netted an ex-bouncer one. – Feb
19, 2010 – Knoxville, Tennessee - By Jamie Satterfield - “I have
information another member of the sheriff’s Dept was fired for
hanging out with the motorcycle club,” defense attorney Mike
Whalen said at a preliminary hearing for 2 Outlaws MC leaders
accused of robbing & kidnapping a bouncer turned undercover
deputy. “What I want to know is: Did (KCSO Deputy Joseph
Linger) join the motorcycle club so he could get hired?” It took 2
rounds of aggressive cross-examination to get that answer. “So
you were happy with your career in bouncer world?” Whalen
asked at one point. “Other than joining the motorcycle club, had
you developed some other skill qualifying you for the job?”
Linger finally conceded he joined the Outlaws in Aug 2008 after a
KCSO buddy told him the agency “would be interested” if he
could infiltrate the group. Sheriff Jimmy “J.J.” Jones
acknowledged after the hearing that a female deputy who
sometimes rode with the Outlaws resigned after being confronted
about violating the agency’s policy against socializing with
suspected criminals. Linger was hired a short time after he joined
the Outlaws & began secretly recording the goings-on at the
group’s clubhouse on Clifton Road. Outlaws commanders Mark
Lester & Kenneth Foster are accused of robbing Linger of his
Outlaws vest in a confrontation at the clubhouse in Dec. After
Thursday’s hearing, General Sessions Judge Patricia Long sent
charges of aggravated robbery & aggravated kidnapping against
the pair to a grand jury for review. The decision did not come
without a fight. Whalen, who represents Foster, & attorney Phil
Lomonaco, who represents Lester, contend there was no robbery
or kidnapping. Instead, they contend the pair confronted Linger
after hearing from Linger’s wife that Linger was working
undercover for KCSO & essentially de-vested him. Prosecutor
Leslie Nassios called the defense theory of a de-vesting “asinine.”
Linger testified that an angry Lester demanded his vest, took his
service weapon, unloaded it & threatened to hit him with it when
he balked at giving up the garment. He said Lester searched him
for a body wire & rifled through his wallet in search of identifying
information. “He made it clear to you, ‘I ain’t taking your
money?’ “ Whalen asked. “He wanted everything to do with the
club.” “Correct,” Linger said. Linger acknowledged the 2
Outlaws leaders told him they were merely “holding” his vest &
Outlaws shirt pending a probe of the wife’s claims & that they
gave him back his gun & bullets. But he insisted both men had
guns within their reach & said he felt “threatened.” Authorities
later raided the clubhouse but came away with only a small
amount of marijuana. Whalen argued that Linger knew he had to
give up the vest if he ran afoul of the club rules. The 2 leaders’
angry handling of the de-vesting shouldn’t have surprised Linger,
Whalen said. “He didn’t join the Boy Scouts,” Whalen said. “He
joined the Outlaws MC. There’s not a kidnapping & there was no
robbery, & this ought to stop right here.” Lomonaco said the pair
were understandably angry. “If you find out someone’s spying on
you … you get a little upset,” he said. But Nassios said it didn’t
matter if the vest & shirt belonged to the Outlaws. “Under the
letter of the law, Joseph Linger had property taken from him by 2
men who had weapons within their reach,” she argued.
I was in the restaurant yesterday when I suddenly realized I
desperately needed to pass gas. The music was really, really loud,
so I timed my gas with the beat of the music. After a couple of
songs, I started to feel better. I finished my coffee, & noticed that
everybody was staring at me.... Then I suddenly remembered
that I was listening to my iPod.

Slaying victim’s wake set today – Feb 19, 2010 - Connecticut -
By Ann DeMatteo - People from across the state & beyond are
expected to descend upon the North Haven Funeral Home today
to pay their respects to a man whose slaying remains unsolved 10
days after he was shot dead outside his tattoo parlor. Police are
still investigating why someone would ambush Joseph “Ho-Jo”
Ferraiolo, 64, the operator of “A Touch of Color” at 1212 Dixwell
Ave., Hamden. “We’re working on it actively,” Hamden Police
Chief Thomas J. Wydra said Thursday. Wydra is declining to
identify any suspects, but said previously that police were trying
to find out whether Ferraiolo’s slaying had anything to do with
motorcycle gang rivalry or whether he was being targeted for
another reason. The Outlaws MC Web site identifies Ferraiolo as
a member of the Connecticut chapter, based in Waterbury.
Numerous messages left on the site offered condolences to his
friends & family. He was shot outside the rear door of the tattoo
parlor the night of Feb. 9 & died from multiple gunshot wounds,
authorities said. Ferraiolo was a private in the Marine Corps
who served from 1962 to 1965. He will be buried at East Lawn
Cemetery in East Haven with military honors. The Patriot Guard
Riders are expected to be out in force Sat at his funeral Mass at 10
a.m. at St. Therese Church, 555 Middletown Ave., North Haven.
The group, which honors veterans, will stage a flag line at the
church & cemetery, according to Connecticut Capt. Bob Stone.
The Outlaws & his family requested the Patriot Guard, Stone said.
His wake is from 4 to 8 p.m. today at North Haven Funeral Home,
36 Washington Ave., North Haven. North Haven police were
planning to provide traffic & pedestrian control in & around the
funeral parlor, as they do for any larger than normal wake or
funeral. Police Chief James X. DiCarlo said police would also
escort the funeral cortege from the funeral home to the church Sat
morning, a common practice.
Jury deliberating in Bad Water Bill’s arson trial – Feb 19,
2010 – Harrisonburg, Virginia - By Sally Voth - The fate of a
former Front Royal man charged with burning down Bad Water
Bill’s Bar-B-Q Barn on Oct. 25, 2003, is in the hands of a Fed
jury. William Wardell Welebir, 56, has been on trial for arson in
U.S. District Court since Wed. Welebir did not take the witness
stand in his own defense Friday. Defense witness Josh Vossel, a
former member of the Pagan’s MC, said he was a club “hangaround”
at the time of the fire. “But even as a hang-around, if you
had been asked to burn down Bad Water Bill’s, you would have,
would you not,” asked Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph Mott.
Vossel said he would. Pagan’s president Paul “Blacksmith”
Hampton, now deceased, “liked to use civilians for a lot of his
dirty work,” Vossel said. “That way it has nothing to do with the
Pagan’s.” In closing arguments, Mott said that Welebir contacted
at state police tip line because he didn’t get the respect he wanted
from the Pagan’s. Defense atty Andrea Harris said the testimony
from Vossel & a current Pagan, James Arthur “Art” Calhoun, was
not credible. Welebir was trying to do the right thing & became
the target of a sloppy investigation, Harris said.
Arsonist found guilty – Feb 20, 2010 – Harrisonburg, Virginia
– By Sally Voth - More than 6 years after Strasburg’s Bad Water
Bill’s Bar-B-Q Barn was destroyed in a 3 a.m. blaze, one of the
culprits has been brought to justice. The other is dead, according
to the U.S. Gov’t. William Wardell “Cozmo” Welebir, formerly
of Front Royal, & now of Conway, S.C., was convicted Friday in
U.S. District Court on a single count of arson. Prosecutors didn’t
have to prove that he actually set the Oct. 25, 2003, fire, but had
at least aided & abetted the arson. Welebir faces a mandatory
minimum sentence of 5 years in prison, with a 20-year maximum.
New bid to control bikies – Feb 20, 2010 – Australia – By Nigel
Hunt – Police have lodged an application for a control order
against a senior member of the Rebels outlaw motorcycle gang,
using an untested section of the Government’s controversial antibikie
legislation. The bold move is targeting Rebels bikie Jamie
Malcolm Brown, 23, who has an extensive criminal record of
violence & firearms offences, including the brutal assault of 2
women at the Seaford Hotel last August. The control order
sought against Brown, who is in prison, is to ban him from
attending any licensed venue or hotel, from being on the footpath
adjoining them & from associating with fellow Rebels Scott
Webster, Christopher Clemente & Mikel Higgins. The police
application, lodged in Adelaide Magistrates Court late on Friday,
is not contingent on the outcome of the High Court challenge to
Section 14 (1) of the Serious & Organized (Control) Act. It has
been made using Section 14 (2)b of the Act, which allows the
court to make an order “if the defendant engages, or has engaged,
in serious criminal activity & regularly associates with other
persons who engage, or have engaged, in serious criminal
activity.” As part of the application using this section of the Act,
police lodged an extensive package of affidavits & other
supporting evidence, comprising 4 folders. Using this section of
the Act also does not require the target to be a member of a
“declared” organisation - an integral component of Section 14 (1)
that is to be contested in the High Court later this year after being
declared invalid by the Full Court last year. Atty-General
Michael Atkinson, who is still considering a police application to
declare the Rebels a criminal organisation, yesterday welcomed
the new move, saying police had to “jump through hoops” to
compile an application using this section of the Act.
Pattaya’s Big ‘Bike Week’ An Outstanding Success – Feb 20,
2010 – Thailand - The “Burapha Bikers Week” was again held in
Pattaya & proved to be even bigger than the 2009 event. This has
become a well established event on Thailand’s promotional
calendar with bikers coming from all over Thailand, plus many
dedicated motorcycle enthusiasts visited from overseas.
Powerful promotion equals success, so the “Burapha Bikers
Week” was again held in Pattaya & started with a biker’s parade
around the city. This finished at the “Hardrock Hotel” on
Pattaya’s Beach Rd & then it was back to the huge outdoor
stadium facilities at Soi Chaiyapruek-1 in Jomtien, where nearly
all of the events were held. On the big stage there were
continuous shows every evening, with drinks, food & fun for
everyone, which made this a “must see” event. Bikers came from
all around Thailand, plus there were a large number of overseas
visitors, & some even chose to camp on site in amongst the trees.
Pretty ladies fitted in perfectly with stands with the stands of
famous brand name bikes, such as Harley. Honda, Yamaha,
Suzuki & BMW, & likewise there were many independent sellers
of accessories & anything else that was relevant to bike week.
The Pres of the Burapha Bike Club, Khun Jumin, who stated, –
This “Burapha Bikers Week” was the most successful ever held,
& our strong promotional campaign resulted in 10% of overseas
bikers gaining recognition of this popular event.” Khun Jumin
went on to say, – “Even though there was well over 1-million baht
in cash receipts, the cost of running such an event runs into
millions of baht. However, our objective is not to make huge
profits, but to offer a free event to bikers from both Thailand &
around the world.” We also interviewed Steve, who is a veteran
Harley biker, & has attended every Thai bikers event n the last 10years.
Steve said, – I have seen this “Burapha Bikers Week” get
stronger every year, so it is definitely the best in Thailand, & is
now widely recognized by bikers around the world.”

Biker ‘Brotherhood’ roars in for funeral of slaying victim -
Feb 21, 2010 - North Haven, Connecticut - By Mark Zaretsky -
Bikers from as far away as Florida, Maine & Chicago - - & a
Connecticut motorcycle honor guard - - joined homicide victim
Joseph “Ho-Jo” Ferraiolo’s grieving family Sat to give him a
sendoff worthy of his colorful life. Dozens of beefy guys on H-
Ds, wearing the colors of The Outlaws, The Brotherhood & other
motorcycle clubs thundered up Livingston Drive to St. Therese’s
Church on Middletown Ave at the head of the funeral procession.
They were greeted by 32 more clean-cut members of the Patriot
Guard Riders — all standing at attention on both sides of the
entrance to the church, each holding an American flag. The
former came to honor Ferriaolo as a fellow biker. The latter came
to honor him for his service as a U.S. Marine. “We’re here to
stand in honor of a Marine, a decorated soldier who served our
country honorably ... & to thank him for his service to our
country,” said Patriot Guard Riders State Captain Bob Stone.
Ferraiolo was a private in the Marine Corps from 1962 to 1965.
He was buried at East Lawn Cemetery in East Haven with
military honors. “We’re buryin’ a brother,” said a bearded,
graying Outlaw whose jacket identified him as a member of a
Virginia chapter. “We don’t do interviews.” Ferraiolo, 64, was
shot the night of Feb. 9 outside the rear door of his “A Touch of
Color” tattoo parlor in Hamden. He died from multiple gunshot
wounds. Police are still investigating why someone would
ambush Ferraiolo, Hamden Police Chief Thomas Wydra said last
week. In the church, Ferraiolo’s sister, Rosemarie Schroeder,
spoke of the various roles her brother, who was an altar boy as a
child, played. She said that “as proud as he was to be a Marine,
he was just as proud to be an Outlaw.” Schroeder addressed how
Ferraiolo could at the same time be a Marine, a biker, a
“protector” within his family — who “had a knack for showing up
when you needed him” — & could also be someone who loved to
dance & had “a special relationship” with their mother: “He made
her laugh. He made her angry. He made her proud,” she said.
“Our brother was a good, kind man,” she said. “If Joey had
money, Everyone would eat!” He “was a good, kind & generous
man & he did not deserve to die like that,” she said. St. Therese
pastor the Rev. Timothy Meehan preceded Schroeder, saying “an
old Irish prayer” that he said was appropriate for Ferraiolo, even
though Ferriaolo was “not nearly as Irish as I am.” It read:
May the road rise to meet you,
May the wind be always at your back,
May the sun shine warm upon your face,
May the rains fall soft upon your fields,
And, until we meet again,
May God hold you in the hollow of His hand.
Six members of the Connecticut & Massachusetts chapters of The
Outlaws, which Ferraiolo was a member of, served as pallbearers.
A number of local Outlaws members had crisp new patches sewn
to their leather jackets that read: “In Memory of HoJo — 2/9/10.”
A contingent of bikers went in to pay their respects during the
funeral Mass — with a number of them taking Communion.
Many others stayed outside & waiting for the Mass to end before
heading on to the cemetery. Outlaws members came from
chapters, identified by patches on the backs of their jackets, as far
away as Illinois, Milwaukee, Detroit, Indiana, Arkansas,
Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia, Florida,
Massachusetts, New Hampshire & Maine. Joining them were
members of other motorcycle clubs. Including the Hawgs,
Deacons, Black Pistons, Faces of Death & the Righteous Unruly.
While many bikers wouldn’t talk, one Black Pistons member from
Pennsylvania said it wasn’t that unusual for people to come from
far away for a funeral — & he would have been there just the
same if Ferraiolo, who he had met but didn’t know well, had died
of natural causes. He came “because I’m a brother,” he said as
the procession roared off to the cemetery after Ferraiolo’s funeral
Mass. “It’s a brotherhood — true brotherhood. That’s stuff we
believe in. ... It’s all out of respect & love.”
Nick the Knife’s sentence extended – Feb 21, 2010 - Australia -
By Emmaline Stigwood - Already in jail for a bikie-related
violence, Nick ‘The Knife’ Forbes has had 8 months added to his
sentence for refusing to co-operate with the Crime & Misconduct
Commission. The Supreme Court in Brisbane was told Forbes, a
one-time Finks bikie, was called to the CMC in late 2008 so it
could find out if the victim of an ear-slicing attack at the
Currumbin Rock Pools was paid to not give evidence. One man
has been sentenced to jail for the violence meted out to David
Holmes, who was taken from his home & had bits of his ears cut
off in 2007, allegedly as revenge for a botched drug deal &
missing money linked to the Lone Wolf bikie group. The case hit
major problems at the committal hearing in 2008 when Holmes
declined to give evidence & it was later discovered he had been
paid $10,000. The court was told on Tuesday the CMC was
interested in ‘getting to the bottom’ of who made the payment &
Forbes had been ‘of interest’ because he had been in custody with
alleged ear cutter Aaron Scheers. Lawyers for Forbes, already
jailed for a series of assaults & for his involvement in the Royal
Pines ‘ballroom blitz’ shootout, told the court the contempt charge
was accepted & Forbes had ‘respectfully declined’ to give
evidence because he felt he should have the ‘right to silence’.
Justice John Byrne said refusing to co-operate should be deterred.
Forbes was due to be paroled in April. Scheers, who also faces
contempt action, has pleaded guilty to kidnapping & grievous
bodily harm over the ear-lopping incident but is yet to be
sentenced because of legal moves to withdraw his pleas.
Bikie’s partner given gun license – Feb 22, 2010 – Australia -
By Angela Pownall - WA Police Commissioner Karl O’Callaghan
has failed in a bid to stop the partner of the head of WA’s Rebels
bikie gang from having a gun license. Kelly Anne Nickels, who
is the partner of Rebels State president Peter Johnston, has won an
appeal against a decision to revoke her firearm license after police
raided the couple’s Busselton farm, which is also home to a
Rebels clubhouse, in April. The State Administrative Tribunal
judgment revealed how Ms Nickels’ license had been repeatedly
renewed before the raid - despite her convictions for assaulting
police - because WA Police does not check the probity of the
State’s 85,000 gun owners when they renew their license. Judge
Janine Pritchard & tribunal member Tim Carey said it was
surprising that Ms Nickels’ convictions in 2001 & 2006 did not
cause a review of her fitness to hold a firearm license. The
tribunal ordered her firearm license to be reinstated, declaring she
was a fit & proper person to hold a license & that she was
remorseful for her previous offending & had shown a change in
her character.
Pacific cruise story... A cruise on the Pacific goes all wrong, the
ship sinks, & there are only 3 Survivors; Jim, Tom & Susie. They
manage to swim to a small island & they live there for a couple of
years doing what’s natural for men & women to do. After
several years of casual sex, all the time, Susie felt absolutely
horrible about what she was doing. She felt having sex with both
Jim & Tom was so immoral & bad that she killed herself. It was
tragic, but Jim & Tom managed to get through it. After a while,
Jim & Tom’s resistance to nature’s urgings waned, & the
inevitable happened. Well, a couple more years went by & Jim
& Tom began to feel absolutely horrible about what they were
doing. I didn’t see this one coming: So, they buried Susie.

Truth of kidnap caper, hatched in a Missouri bar, is stranger
than fiction – Feb 22, 2010 – Missouri – By Donald Bradley - A
budding band of armed Missouri kidnappers drove to New Jersey,
grabbed the wrong guy, hauled him back across 5 state lines &
ended up with car trouble a hundred miles short of their
destination. When their captive took advantage & tried to make a
break for it, they beat him down, all in front of a conveniencestore
clerk. The cast includes the self-proclaimed son of an
infamous godfather of the Hells Angels, 3 bad-biker wannabes, a
fellow burned in a construction deal out West & the straight man
— an unassuming owner of a pet food store in Newton, N.J. The
whole cross-country caper is pretty funny, although before it ends,
grim scenes unfold, including one in a Missouri kitchen where a
man’s fingers are blown off, terrorizing his wife, & the moment
outside the store where the wrong Jeffrey Muller gets Tasered,
beaten & thrown in a car. The 3 thugs try to convince the Ozark,
Mo., clerk that the man screaming for help inside her store is
crazy & they’re just trying to take him to a mental treatment
facility in Nevada, Mo. She doesn’t buy their act, 9-1-1 is
punched into the phone. The Hells Angels connection added a
dramatic element, especially after Bates County Sheriff Chad
Anderson issued a news release during the investigation saying
that Barger had recruited his Hells Angels wannabes to kill him &
his chief deputy, Justin Moreland. Two problems. One was
when Missouri investigators contacted Sonny Barger’s lawyer.
Barger, the former motorcycle club president, now lives in
Arizona after a bout with throat cancer & a term in federal prison.
He has no children & had never heard of William Barger. The
other problem? “Funny thing,” Vernon County Sheriff Ron
Peckman said last week. “None of them owned a bike.” It’s not
surprising that this caper began in a bar. One night last fall, Roy
Slates, 55, a Nevada, Mo., building contractor, sat drinking &
bemoaning the loss of $400,000 in a Utah construction deal years
before, in which one Jeffrey Muller reportedly defaulted on a
loan. Douglas Stangeland listened to the story, then told it to
Barger. A deal soon was struck between Slates & Barger in
which Barger would send his would-be gang members to find
Muller & strong-arm money from him or, short of that, bring him
the man himself. In return, Slates agreed to pay them 25% of
what they recovered, & he gave Barger $10,000 to finance the
job. On the night of Nov. 9, three armed men wearing ski masks
barged into the rural Vernon County home of Charles Scammell,
who runs a Kansas City-area construction firm. They demanded
information about Muller. Yes, Scammell told them, he had had
business dealings with Muller 10 years earlier & thought he lived
in New Jersey. Before the visit was over, one of the intruders
blasted Scammell’s hand with a shotgun, taking 3 fingers. After
getting what they wanted, the men tied Scammell & his wife to
kitchen chairs, told them not to tell the police & left. The crime
went unsolved for 2 months. Whatever information they got out
of Scammell, it apparently wasn’t much to go on. On the
morning of Jan. 8, a Friday, Newton, N.J., police received a call
from Jeffrey Muller’s wife, who said she had driven to their store,
J&G Pet Food, & found it still dark. Her husband’s Ford Ranger
was there, but there was no sign of him. Police noted that
Muller’s eyeglasses & sack lunch were on the ground. The area
was secured, a canine unit brought in, a helicopter deployed. Not
much to go on, until the Police Department got a call the next
morning from Lake Ozark, Mo. We’ve got your Jeffrey Muller,
the Missouri officers told them. They also had Swarnes,
Stangeland & Wadel. Authorities in New Jersey said they think
the men used a local phone book to find their man — who had a
different middle initial, lived in a different county & was not the
right age. The snatch team apparently observed Muller before
making their move. He said he had seen them in his store on
earlier occasions. The Missourians approached Muller as he
entered his store, the victim told Newton police detectives, &
asked his name. “Jeffrey Muller,” he answered. They said he
was going with them. When he refused, they Tasered him. Family
members said Muller was told — falsely — that his wife also was
a captive, but he was given no clue why this was happening to
him. “I sell dog food!” Muller yelled as he was wrestled into his
captors’ beige Malibu. They tied his hands & legs, and, waving
handguns, demanded bank account information. Not hearing what
they wanted, they pointed the Chevy west. About 1,100 miles
later, the car broke down early Saturday in Lake Ozark, a tourist
town that’s seen a lot, but nothing like this. Authorities said that
by that time, it had dawned on the kidnappers that, yes, they had
grabbed the wrong Muller — & he had seen their faces. Two of
the men went into a convenience store to try to find a remedy for
their ailing car. Left alone with the third abductor, Muller fought
his way out of the car & took off running. The 2 others tackled
him & dragged him back to the car. But he slipped away again,
this time making it into the store, shouting. Back in New Jersey
with a black eye, Muller told The Star-Ledger of Newark that his
determination to see his grandchildren get married inspired his
escape. “That’s what gave me the go to break loose. That’s what
saved my life.” Meanwhile, the right Jeffrey Muller has been
told about events, said authorities, who offered no information on
his whereabouts. It could have been worse, said a Newton
detective. His name is Muller, too, & the prosecutor in the case is
named Mueller. “We’ve had a good time with that around here,”
the detective Muller said, chuckling. Stangeland, Swarnes &
Wadel are charged in New Jersey with kidnapping Jeffrey Muller
& in Missouri for kidnapping, assault & armed criminal action in
the Scammell home invasion. Swarnes already is in New Jersey,
& Stangeland & Wadel appeared in Miller County, Mo., Circuit
Court earlier this month for an extradition hearing. Barger also is
charged with kidnapping in the Scammell case & with Slates
could face more charges in New Jersey, Sussex County officials
said. On Feb. 4, authorities in Vernon County charged Slates
with concealing a felony & hindering prosecution in the Scammell
case. “Seemed that no matter what these fellows did, nothing
seemed to go right for them in this deal,” Peckman said. As he
told the New York Post: “Makes for a good movie.”
A Mexican woodpecker & a Canadian woodpecker were in
Mexico arguing about which country had the toughest trees. The
Mexican woodpecker claimed Mexico had a tree that no woodpecker
could peck. The Canadian woodpecker accepted his
challenge & promptly pecked a hole in the tree with no problem.
The Mexican woodpecker was amazed. The Canadian woodpecker
then challenged the Mexican woodpecker to peck a tree in
Canada that was absolutely ‘impeccable’ (a term frequently used
by woodpeckers). The Mexican woodpecker expressed confidence
that he could do it & accepted the challenge. The 2 of them flew
to Canada where the Mexican woodpecker successfully pecked
the so-called ‘impeccable’ tree almost without breaking a sweat.
Both woodpeckers were now terribly confused. How is it that the
Canadian woodpecker was able to peck the Mexican tree, & the
Mexican woodpecker was able to peck the Canadian tree, yet
neither was able to peck the tree in their own country? After
much woodpecker pondering, they both came to the same
conclusion: Apparently, Tiger Woods was right, when he said;
your pecker gets harder when you’re away from home.
Beer is proof that God loves us & wants us to be happy.
- Benjamin Franklin

Pagan pleads guilty to racketeering charges – Feb 22, 2010 -
Charleston, West Virginia - By Andrew Clevenger - A
Huntington Pagan admitted Mon in Fed court that he set up a plot
to kill a Pagan in prison because members of the motorcycle club
believed the inmate was providing info about the club’s activities
to authorities. David A. Cremeans, 49, known as “Kicker” in the
biker world, also admitted that he traveled to Portsmouth, Ohio, in
Nov 2004 to help the Pagan’s shut down a smaller, affiliated club,
the Road Disciples MC, armed & prepared to use force if
necessary. In exchange for Cremeans’ guilty plea to racketeering
charges, prosecutors agreed to dismiss 11 other counts against
him, including retaliation against a witness & drug & gun charges.
Cremeans, the one-time treasure of the Charleston chapter of the
Pagan’s, plotted with members of the Last Rebels MC to kill a
member of the Pagan’s who was serving a sentence at the Fed
prison in Ashland, Ky., according to the stipulation of facts
entered as part of Cremeans’ plea deal. “They wanted him to shut
up, & wanted to get back at him for running his mouth to law
enforcement officers,” the stipulation states. Cremeans reached
out to Michael Stevens, a guard at the prison, the stipulation
states. Cremeans knew Stevens’ brother, Richard Stevens, who
was a local chapter Pres of the Last Rebels, a Pagan’s support
club. Although the Pagan’s did not allow anyone with a job
related to law enforcement to join the Pagan’s or any affiliated
club, Michael Stevens thought he would be admitted to the Last
Rebels if he arranged for the murder inside the prison, the
stipulation states. Last Rebels national Pres Thomas Geer, who
like Cremeans & the Stevens brothers was one of 55 defendants
named in a 44-count indictment unsealed in Oct, vouched for
Michael Stevens, according to the stipulation. Authorities
secretly recorded a conversation among Cremeans, Michael
Stevens & an unidentified Pagan about the plot, in which Stevens
described his plan to hire a big inmate to kill the intended victim:
“The large, cooperating inmate would stab himself & then, ‘stomp
[the victim’s] gut out,’ so it would look like self defense.”
Cremeans planned to pay the inmate by putting a series of small
deposits into the inmate’s commissary account, because a large
lump sum would attract attention, according to the stipulation.
“Michael Stevens said he would explain that plan to the
cooperating inmate because ‘you just stomped this guy’s heart out
of his throat,’ so putting a lot of money in his account at one time
would be suspicious,” the stipulation states. Authorities moved
the intended victim to another facility before he was harmed.
Cremeans faces up to 20 years in prison when sentenced by U.S.
District Judge Thomas E. Johnston on June 29. Cremeans is the
18th defendant to strike a deal with prosecutors, but only the
second to admit to racketeering charges. Pagan’s Nat’l V.P.
Floyd A. “Jesse” Moore, 64, of St. Albans, pleaded guilty to
racketeering in December, conceding that the Pagan’s is a
hierarchical gang engaged in organized crime. Racketeering
charges remain pending against Pagan’s Nat’l Pres David “Bart”
Barbeito, 49, of Myersville, Md. A grand jury upgraded charges
against Richard Weaver, 52, of St. Albans, when it handed up a
superseding indictment earlier this month. Other defendants have
admitted to helping stockpile explosives as part of an ongoing
feud between the Pagan’s & the Hells Angels MC, intimidating
other motorcycle clubs, extortion & selling drugs. Pending counts
accuse gang members & associates of kidnapping, robbery &
transporting the proceeds from illegal raffles of motorcycles
across state lines. One defendant died in custody, & another was
added when the new indictment was unsealed. Thirty-seven
defendants remain, & are scheduled to go to trial in May.
A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can
learn in no other way. - Mark Twain
Police raid Finks clubhouse – Feb 2, 2010 – Australia – By Lisa
Quartermain & Narelle Towie - Police today raided the Balga
clubhouse of outlaw motorcycle gang the Finks, seizing drugs &
ammunition. About 10 officers from the Organized Crime Squad
swooped on the heavily fortified house at 6 Olney Ct after
securing a firearm warrant following 2 separate incidents on the
weekend. Officers were called to the street 2 nights ago to attend
an argument involving neighbors & located parts of a firearm. On
Sunday night, a 47-year-old Finks bikie was allegedly caught
carrying a loaded gun & drugs at a concert in Caversham. The
bikie was charged with possessing an illegal drug & being armed
in public. It is understood the Henley Brook man was at the
concert with Tammie Cherie Kingdon, the de facto partner of
jailed former Coffin Cheater turned Finks bikie Troy Mercanti.
The pair & another friend were ejected from the Day on the Green
concert, featuring Rob Thomas, by security staff just before
9.30pm. As the trio was being escorted out, a man allegedly
became involved in a scuffle with security staff, during which a
loaded .25 calibre pistol fell from his clothing. Police allegedly
found a gram of a white powder, believed to be cocaine, in a vial
on his necklace, & charged him with possession of a prohibited
drug & being armed in a place of public entertainment. He is due
to appear in Midland Magistrates Court next week. Inspector
John Adams said a small amount of cannabis & bullets were
found in the house. Police had tried for about half an hour to get
inside the property, but couldn’t because it was heavily locked up.
An occupant eventually let police in but no charges were laid over
the cannabis & ammunition seizure. The Finks clubhouse - a
suburban house surrounded by a green fence, with a big red &
yellow Finks MC banner in the front yard - is at the centre of a
police case against Ms Kingdon, who is fighting a charge of
property laundering, reportedly linked to the purchase of the
clubhouse for the motorcycle club. Kingdon is also defending 4
charges of stealing, believed to be linked to a trust fund set up to
support the children of slain Coffin Cheater bikie Marc Chabriere,
who was shot during a turf war between the Coffin Cheaters &
rival gang the Club Deroes. Kingdon is on bail to reappear in
court on April 29 & trial is expected to take place in the District
Court before a jury at a later date. Mercanti is currently serving a
2-year sentence for assaulting a man in Northbridge in May 2007.
Editor’s Comment – Feb 23, 2010 – Minnesota…
FYI – No Action Requested… Today I turned 50 years old…
Respects, Mike Sons Of Silence MC Minnesota…
Final arguments heard in case alleging cop leaked info to
Hells Angels – Feb 23, 2010 – Canada – By Allan Benner -
Defence attorney Ron Brady argued security lapses at the Port
Colborne police station makes it impossible to determine who
leaked information to the Hells Angels. But Crown prosecutor
Robin Flumerfelt said the evidence overwhelmingly points to the
guilt of Const. Dean Rudge, regardless of the inadequate security.
After hearing final arguments Monday, concluding more than 2
weeks of testimony in a Welland courtroom, Judge Harrison
Arrell will announce his verdict May 13 into charges against
Rudge, who was arrested April 4, 2007, for breach of trust by a
public officer. Considering lax security at the Port Colborne
police station, Brady said, anyone from a disgruntled former
police officer to a cleaning person could have had access to
confidential documents that were later found in the possession of
a member of the Hells Angels.
Death stares every man in the face...
All a man can do is stare back & grin…

Hells Angels may hold key to pirate hero Störtebeker’s
missing skull – Feb 23, 2010 – Germany – By Roger Boyes -
When the fearsome Baltic pirate Klaus Störtebeker was executed
600 years ago his headless body is said to have walked 12m (40ft)
along the length of Hamburg quayside. He had struck a deal with
the elders of the port: any of his 70 men that he managed to pass
in his post-decapitation walk should be spared. The quivering
corpse passed 11 fellow pirates before the executioner put out a
foot & tripped him up. Little wonder, then, that the skull of
Störtebeker has fascinated Germans for so long - & that its theft
from a Hamburg museum last month has kept police busy. They
interrogated members of the often reckless FC St Pauli fan club &
dug deep into the city’s Goth scene before concentrating on a new
possibility: that the pirate’s skull has become a trophy in the turf
wars between rival biker gangs. On Sat night a skull was placed
outside the offices of the Hamburger Morgenpost with “No
Tacos” written on its crown. “Tacos” is slang for the biker group
Bandidos, which is challenging the Hells Angels for control over
northern Germany’s lucrative drugs trade. Ralph Wiechmann,
head of archaeology at the Hamburg Museum, was called in to
examine the skull & ruled that it belonged to a more recent corpse
than that of Störtebeker. The pirate’s skull has a gaping hole on its
right side, where it was nailed to a wooden stake outside the
harbour gate to deter people from piracy. The latest skull bore axe
wounds but no nail hole. Even so, the local press continues to
insist that a Hell’s Angels chapter is the likely culprit. The
Morgenpost cites an “insider from the biker scene” as saying that
the skull was offered to the Hells Angels free of charge by an
unnamed thief. “The piratical skull & crossbones is certainly part
of the insignia of aggressive motorcycle gangs,” a police
investigator said. “Störtebeker is a hero for some of these people.”
Störtebeker is regarded as a Robin Hood or even a Che Guevara
figure by many northern Germans, because he robbed the rich
merchant ships of the Hanseatic League. However, there is little
evidence of him redistributing his booty to the poor. Indeed,
legend has it that after his execution Hamburg senators found that
the masts of his ships had cores of gold & silver. The possibility
that Störtebeker, who was decapitated in Oct 1401 (or a year
earlier, by some accounts), aged 40, was little more than a
bloodthirsty crook, has not detracted from his iconic status. He
has a statue honoring him in Hamburg & a brewery in Stralsund,
on the Baltic Sea, named after him. “The skull is an important
relic of Hamburg history,” Lisa Kosok, the director of the
Hamburg Museum, said. “It is priceless.” It disappeared for a few
centuries but re-emerged in 1878 during excavations to expand
Hamburg harbor. The age of the skull was confirmed in 1999.
The Hamburg senate failed to keep its promise to Störtebeker &
the 11 men were not spared. After chopping off the heads of all of
Störtebeker’s pirates the executioner was asked if he was not a
little tired. He replied that he had enough energy to execute the
senate elders as well. This was probably intended as a joke - but
the senate ordered the executioner to be beheaded.
Motorcycle camaraderie – Feb 23, 2010 – Texas – By Katy
Ralston - A&M bikers create recognized organization to foster
friendships & spark interest in riding. It has come to be known as
one of Texas A&M’s age-old sayings: from the outside looking in
you can’t understand it; from the inside looking out you can’t
explain it. For senior electrical engineering major Bart Basile, the
saying is true the moment he mounts a motorcycle. “It’s really
hard to describe, it’s like A&M - you can’t describe to someone
on the outside. Whenever any of us get on a bike you are one with
the environment around you,” Basile said. “In a car you are kind
of surrounded by a box, but when you are on a motorcycle it’s a
completely different feeling whenever you get on the road. It’s
just you & the bike & the road & there is nothing else really that
matters.” Riding, he said, is his addiction. “I wanted to join a
community that would support riders,” Basile said. “So I found
the A&M MC about a year & a half ago.”
Nursing Home Residents Form a Biker Gang – Feb 23, 2010 –
Illinois - By Andrew Greiner - Lydia Scheltes woke up in her bed
at Bethesda Retirement Center one morning with pinkish hair, a
tattoo on her arm & a hangover. Not a typical morning for the 90year-old.
“Seniors are more fun than you’ll ever know,” she said.
Scheltes wasn’t alone: Seven ladies & one dude – aged 65 to 97 –
all had a similar hazy look in their eyes after they hung out with
bikers at the Evil Olive bar in Wicker Park on Feb. 11. Some of
them were still wearing their own biker gear. Bethesda’s
residents usually spend their time knitting or quilting or doing an
activity typical of their age group, but they wanted something
different for a change. They often drive past the Evil Olive during
day trips & fantasized about what goes on inside. One day
Elizabeth Barrett, 68, asked their Life Enrichment Director, Ruth
Werstler, if they could check it out. “I did a little digging &
found out it was a nightclub,” Werstler said. “But that didn’t deter
them.They still wanted to go.” In fact, Barrett upped the ante:
She suggest going out as bikers. “It was all my idea,” Barrett says
with a devious laugh. “We aren’t the regular type of nursing
home.” Werstler indulged her crew & reached out to various
people who could help transform the retirement home crew into a
boss biker gang. She recruited hairstylists, make-up artists, a
professional costumer & a tattoo artist from Artreach at Lillstreet
to donate their time to make the ladies look fearsome. About 100
people showed up to the club, including members of the Latino
American Motorcycle Association & Chicago’s Chapter of
A.B.A.T.E. “These women were serious, man,” said Evil Olive
General Manager Eric Bollard. “They showed up with pink hair &
skull caps. It was for real. … One woman walked straight up to
the bar & ordered a Dirty Martini. It was great.” They even
turned the event into a semi-fundraiser. Werstler is trying to raise
$25,000 for a touch screen computer system for the non-profit
retirement home so that the women can learn & use the Internet.
The bikers who showed up pitched in about $250 toward the
“Never-Too-Late.” But it wasn’t the money that tickled the
residents. It was the exhilaration of an evening that felt like it
“flew by in a nanosecond,” said 66-year-old Janet Kaplan.
Kaplan, who is wheelchair bound & admittedly extremely
overweight, was disappointed when she first arrived at the club
because there were stairs by the entrance. “I said, We’re not
going to make it,” Kaplan said. “Then before I knew it a group of
bikers came & grabbed my wheelchair. All I saw was my head
being tipped back & my feet were up in the air & they had me in
the club.” The bikers gave the women club hats, & spent time
chatting them up, flirting & even dancing. “One of our residents,
Katie, just turned 97, & she got up with her walker & shook her
booty,” Kaplan said. “She shook it good.” The one thing the
women didn’t get a chance to do was ride on a motorcycle,
because it was too cold. But that’s coming. LAMA &
A.B.A.T.E. members made plans to come by the residence center
in the spring & take the ladies for a ride. “I want to be the first
one on the bike,” said 90-year-old Scheltes. They may ride
straight back to Evil Olive. “Man, those ladies were an awesome
bunch,” Boland said. “Everyone was so into it that we’re thinking
about arranging another party for them soon.”
And if anyone will not receive you or listen to your words, shake
off the dust from your feet when you leave that house or town.
(Matthew 10:14)

Montana man admits ripping off – Feb 23, 2010 – Ohio - A
Montana lawyer & motorcycle enthusiast has pleaded guilty in
Ohio to stealing $100,000 from the American Motorcyclist
Association. Dal Smilie said Monday he gets the feeling his life
is over. He apologized for humiliating his family & the AMA, the
nation’s biggest motorcycle membership organization. The 62year-old
Smilie is a former chief lawyer for the Montana
Department of Administration & was a member of the
Pickerington, Ohio-based motorcycle group’s board of directors
for 25 years. He says he logged 2.5 million miles traveling for
the AMA but overstated his expenses for two years. He pleaded
guilty to grand theft & receiving stolen property. A judge
sentenced Smilie to 3 years & 8 months in prison but suspended
the sentence in lieu of 2 years of community control & a $1,000
fine. Smilie repaid the AMA before he was charged.
Truckload of marijuana disappears – Feb 23, 2010 – Kentucky
- A truckload of confiscated marijuana that could be worth more
than $1 million disappeared somewhere between Memphis &
Louisville, Ky., sources say. The more than 1,700 pounds of pot
went missing during a controlled drug delivery going from
Memphis to Louisville, The Memphis Commercial-Appeal
reported Sunday. A Memphis PD travel memo obtained by the
newspaper said the drugs -- confiscated from a semi Feb. 10 --
were escorted to Louisville by Memphis police & Shelby County
sheriff’s deputies. Sources said the officers saw several vehicles
pull up to the tractor-trailer parked in Louisville, leave, come
back, then leave again. When they checked the contents of the
truck it was empty, the sources said.
Five arrested in bar brawl – Feb 24, 2010 – Louisiana – By
River Bureau - Ascension Parish sheriff’s deputies arrested 5
people this morning following a brawl & shooting at Fred’s on the
River in Port Vincent involving the Bandidos motorcycle gang,
the Sheriff’s Office said today. Among those arrested are 4
members of the gang, including Pres Joe “Bandido Joe” Flores, &
a friend of the lone shooting victim, deputies said in a news
release. The incident escalated into a shooting after the victim,
Steven Hoff, 31, 30914 La. 16, Denham Springs, called his friend
for help as gang members arrived at the bar on La. 42 along the
Amite River & argued with him, deputies said. Hoff was recently
kicked out of the gang, deputies said. Hoff’s friend, Brian
McDonald, 39, 15357 Joe Sevario Rd, Prairieville, came to the
bar & brandished a gun to get the gang members off Hoff who
was being beaten at that point, deputies said. McDonald is not
believed to be a member of the gang, deputies said. The gang
members went outside the bar where Chester Hunnicutt got a gun
& gave it to Flores, deputies said. The gang members went back
inside & rushed Hoff & McDonald, deputies said. Flores
allegedly shot Hoff several times & the gang members beat
McDonald, deputies said. Authorities arrived a short time later &
took the gang members into custody, deputies said. Hoff was
taken to a hospital & is listed in stable condition following
emergency surgery, deputies said. McDonald, who was treated
for non-life-threatening injuries, was arrested on counts of
aggravateed assault, disturbing the peace & possession of a
firearm on an alcoholic beverage outlet, deputies said. According
to deputies, the gang members arrested & the counts against them
are: - Joe Louis Flores, 31, 34230 Hocks Cove, Denham
Springs, attempted second-degree murder, possession of a firearm
in an alcoholic beverage outlet & 2 nd -degree battery.
- Jose Felisiano Flores, 31, 11040 Burgess Ave., Denham
Springs, second-degree battery & disturbing the peace.
- Derrick Johnson, 35, 13458 Prairie Lane, Walker, 2 nd -degree
battery & disturbing the peace.
- Hunnicutt, 38, 44523 La. 42, Prairieville, principal to attempted
2 nd -degree murder, possession of a firearm in an alcoholic
beverage outlet, 2 nd -degree battery& disturbing the peace.
No bonds have not been set. No charges have been filed against
Hoff at this time but the matter is still under investigation.
Minnesota bikers rally against careless driving – Feb 25, 2010
- St. Paul, Minnesota - By Gordon Severson - At the State
Capitol a wave of black leather & bandanas flowed through the
front doors as hundreds of Minnesota bikers rallied on Wed
February 24th for "Minnesota Biker Day." "When we can smell
that leather, that riding leather, we know we're smelling freedom.
That's what it's about, being able to have those freedoms to go out
wherever we need to go & really enjoy life, enjoy nature, &
everything this state & our country has to offer," Republican
Senator Michael Jungbauer said. Every year avid bikers rally to
voice their concerns about the no helmet law, but this year new
issues have risen for the group. As part of Pawlenty's $1.2 billion
budget cut proposal, many dollars from a motorcycle safety fund
would be funneled out to make up for some of Minnesota's deficit.
"I think it's important that we don't raid this fund, raiding this fund
would decrease safety & affect bikers everywhere," DFL-
Representative Terry Morrow said. Another main issue the group
is concerned with includes careless driving legislation that would
beef up penalties for people that drive while texting, talking on
the phone, & partake in other distractions. Besides Minnesota
bikers, many other groups met today with legislators. Students
from private colleges in Minnesota rallied as well as a large group
of citizens from Rochester Minnesota. These citizens later met
with Governor Tim Pawlenty & voiced concerns about issues
their city has with his budget proposal.
16 in motorcycle club face drug, gun charges – Feb 25, 2010 –
Chattanooga, Tennessee - By Todd South - Sixteen members of
the local Outlaw MC were indicted today on several charges of
conspiring to sell cocaine & crack cocaine & possessing illegal
firearms. One of the 16 even was charged with possessing &
receiving child pornography images. Fed investigators raided the
club’s compound at 3014 Campbell St. early this morning,
arresting 14 of the 16 charged. The U.S. atty’s office in
Chattanooga said late today that they are still seeking to arrest the
last 2. Those charged include one woman. All range in age from
early 30s to late 60s. Countless supporters packed the Fed
courtroom this afternoon as the 14 who were arrested pleaded not
guilty to all charges during their arraignments. Hearings will take
place Mon & Tue, which will determine if the members of the
motorcycle gang will be allowed to make bond. For now they
remain incarcerated at the Bradley County Jail. The U.S. Dept of
Justice Web site lists the Black Piston MC as one of its top 8
outlaw motorcycle gangs. The Black Pistons act as a support
organization for the Outlaw MC. Those belonging to the club are
known to engage in all sorts of criminal activity including drug
trafficking & extortion, according to the DOJ.
U.S. Defenders:
- If we all do a little bit, Then no one has to do a lot…
- There can be no “I”, there has to be “We”...
- One heart, One Voice…
2010 25 th Annual NCOM Convention:
May 6 - 9, 2010 Orlando Airport Marriott
7449 Augusta National Drive Orlando, Florida…
National Coalition of Motorcyclists…
An Idea Whose Time Has Come…